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• CMS Moves Up Avastin Pricing Changes

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  After pressure from Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has accelerated its recently announced changes to reimbursement coding for Avastin, which is used to treat wet macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness among seniors. The drug, however, is controversial because it’s often used off-label in ...
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• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
    We’ve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name ...
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• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  Engadget — Authority: 863
  Weve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name brachytherapy, ...
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• RPE stem cells. “… twelve patients will be enrolled into the study at three clinical sites …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 130
  Advanced Cell Technology Inc has reported: “… that it filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase I/II multicenter study using embryonic stem cell derived retinal cells to treat patients with Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy (SMD).” ...
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• Dear US Preventive Services Task Force: Bite me.

  
  Keeping Knit Simple — Authority: 124
  So some task force has decided that women shouldnt be screened for breast cancer, or even do a monthly self-exam, because its not cost-effective for women under the age of 50. Evidentally women dont get breast cancer and die from it until theyre at least in their 50s. Just who are these people anyway? Its not the ...
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• Photorecoptors. Stress. Activation. Protective response. “… first time that any protective signal within photoreceptors has been identified across such a broad range of eye diseases …”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 130
  Caroline Zeiss, Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and Ophthalmology, from Yale School of Medicine has said: “Not only did we find that the drug activated the novel CREB1/ATF1 photoreceptor pathway, but we found that this activation was caused by stress …” “This suggests that CREB/ATF1 may be an ...
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• Researchers isolate protective mechanism to save sight

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 17 (IANS) Determining what triggers the death of retinal cells or photoreceptors could be the key to stopping blinding disorders caused by a wide range of eye diseases, says a new study.Caroline Zeiss, associate professor of comparative medicine and ophthalmology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), and ...
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• Low Fat Diet: See Better and Look Better

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  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 weeks 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: 130
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cataract Surgery Doesnt Worsen Macular Degeneration: Study

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  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
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• Microchip That Can Help Blind People See!

  
  Health Journal - Health News and Health Articles — Authority: 402
  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. ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  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
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• Cataract surgery helps AMD patients; steroid improves DME; onlin...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Medicare Appears to be Reversing Avastin Ruling

  
  The LASIK Blog — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• CMS Blinks Over Avastin Medicare Coding

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 582
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 130
  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 ...
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• 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: 130
  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, ...
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• Single shot of gene therapy could make kids with congenital blindness see

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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