macular degeneration

Welcome to the 'macular degeneration' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'macular degeneration'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “macular degeneration”

• Low Fat Diet: See Better and Look Better

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  Here is another reason to watch the fat intake.  We have known for years that a low fat diet can aid in weight reduction.  A new study reported in this months Archives of Ophthalmology, AssociationBetween Dietary Fat Intake and Age-Related Macular Degeneration in theCarotenoids in Age-Related Eye Disease Study ...
  2 days ago

• Cataract. AMD. “… long-standing controversy among clinicians as to whether cataract surgery is contraindicated in eyes with non-neovascular AMD.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  A report in the November issue of Archives of Ophthalmology , one of the JAMA / Archives journals, indicates: ‘ Age-related macular degeneration does not appear to progress at a higher rate among individuals who have had surgery to treat cataract, contrary to previous reports that treating one cause of vision ...
  3 days ago

• Cataract Surgery Doesnt Worsen Macular Degeneration: Study

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 545
  MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Cataract surgery doesnt appear to speed the progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new study that challenges the belief that treating one cause of vision loss worsens the other. read more
  6 days ago

• Microchip That Can Help Blind People See!

  
  Health Journal - Health News and Health Articles — Authority: 111
  Image: Shawn Kelly It is nothing short of a miracle for blind people to regain their vision and see again, and this may become a reality sooner than you think, thanks to a microchip the size of a small grain – or should we say, thanks to the researchers who spend years on research just to make this happen. ...
  1 week ago

• Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; online eye health forum

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 626
  SAN FRANCISCO, CA--- This months Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (Academy) reports on a national study that finds cataract surgery is likely to benefit p
  1 week ago

• Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; onlin...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  (American Academy of Ophthalmology) This months Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology reports on a national study that finds cataract surgery is likely to benefit patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at all stages of the disease, on a clinical trial showing that the ...
  1 week ago

• Medicare Appears to be Reversing Avastin Ruling

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 118
  In my October 12 Blog post I wrote about Medicares foolish decision to reimburse retinal specialists less than their costs for treating macular degeneration with the much- less expensive drug, Avastin.  This decision would cost our government millions of dollars annually.  I questioned how this system could ever ...
  2 weeks ago

• CMS Blinks Over Avastin Medicare Coding

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 596
  After pressure from Congress and concern from doctors, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid now plans to reverse recently enacted reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors and the elderly. The drug, you may recall, is often used ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blue light-filtering lens may protect against age-related vision loss

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): A new study has shown that implantation of blue light-filtering intraocular lens (IOLs) at the time of cataract surgery increases a nutritional component of the eye, which may offer protection against the development or progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study has been ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blue light-filtering. Lenses. “… increases a nutritional component of the eye …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  John M Nolan, Fulbright Scholar, BSc, PhD, from the Macular Pigment Research Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland, has said: “Blue light-filtering lenses filter and block damaging blue light from reaching the retina, which holds the potential of reducing vision loss and improving the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gene therapy. “Children who were treated with gene therapy are now able to walk and play just like any normally sighted child …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  Twelve patients have received gene therapy utilizing a surgical procedure performed by Albert M Maguire MD, University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Ophthalmology. According to a Release from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: “After the first group of three young adults was treated safely, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Single shot of gene therapy could make kids with congenital blindness see

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, Oct 25 (ANI): A single jab of genes that produce light-sensitive pigments can make children with congenital blindness see, according to a new study.Taking the next step towards using gene therapy to cure disease, the study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• mTOR inhibitors. Rapamycin. “… for DME, neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and dry eye syndrome.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  MacuSight has reported “… that it has received Fast Track designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Perceiva, the company’s proprietary ocular sirolimus product, for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME). MacuSight is currently advancing Perceiva in a broad Phase 2 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vitamins to prevent macular degeneration

  
  The C.A.M. Report — Authority: 137
  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of severe irreversible vision loss in older Americans.Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston examined the combined effect of folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) on the risk of AMD.First, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fetal tissue helps restore partial vision in the blind

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, Oct 21 (ANI): In a novel study, researchers have successfully improved vision in people with blinding eye diseases by transplanting fetal tissue in the eye.Another experiment showed that retinal prosthesis could also restore some vision in patients with blinding eye disease.The researchers focussed their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Experimental treatments restore partial vision to blind people

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 626
  Two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings, presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the worlds largest source of emerging news on brain science and health, may lead ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neural stem cells. “… protect cone photoreceptors (cones) in the eye from progressive degeneration …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  StemCells Inc has reported “… new preclinical data showing that its human neural stem cells protect cone photoreceptors (cones) in the eye from progressive degeneration and preserve visual function long term.” More from a Release dated October 19, sourced from StemCells Inc: StemCells, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Blindness Cured with a Single Shot!

  
  Dr. Carols Naturally Healthy Pets Blog — Authority: 115
  Imagine being blind and receiving a single injection that restores your vision! This sounds too good to be true but is a new reality that holds tremendous hope fpr people and pets in the future.Normally, most drugs are unable to reach the retina because of a natural impermeable lining, called the blood-retina barrier, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bright light. Low light.

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 131
  According to a Release from the Washington University School of Medicine: ‘When we go from light to near total darkness, cells in the retina must quickly adjust.’ ‘Vision scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified an intricate process that allows the human eye to adapt ...
  4 weeks ago

• This is the Agency that is Going to Bend the Cost Curve?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  Writing in the New York Times , Andrew Pollack reports that Medicare is about to stop paying for Avastin as a treatment for eye diseases. He writes, “But the way the bureaucratic gears mesh in this case, the move could end up costing Medicare itself hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and individual patients ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about macular degeneration