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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
A group of researchers in Lausanne, Switzerland has published a study appearing in the Oct 1 advance online edition of the Journal Nature that shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself.
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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
On 30th September, RNIB launched a new report on the ‘Labour Market Experiences of People with Seeing Difficulties - a Secondary Analysis of the Labour Force Survey’ (LFS). This research, undertaken by the Institute for Employment Studies, provides us with a recent picture of the demographic characteristics and employment opportunities for working age people with seeing difficulties.
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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
World experts map new directions for future research and management of the world’s second leading cause of blindness A 10-year outlook for innovative and forward-looking glaucoma management, and the future of research into the condition: key topics put under the spotlight in a new supplement to International Glaucoma Review (IGR).
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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
This month’s Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, includes reports on the first large-scale visual acuity assessment of preschool children, the Baltimore Pediatric Eye Disease Study. Surprisingly, researchers found that one commonly-used vision test was so inaccurate that its usefulness is questionable. Also of note in this issue are two major, linked studies of infection risks associated with new and standard contact lens types.
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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
Humans can accurately perceive a moving object’s direction. We can also, however, be fooled into miss-perceiving this direction. If one views upward motion for some 30 seconds and then subsequently looks at motion in a different direction, the latter may be grossly miss-calculated. This illusion is known as the direction after-effect. We can also be fooled into miss-calculating the directions of two superimposed motions - direction repulsion.
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Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationEye Health
When an object moves fast, we follow it with our eyes: our brain correspondingly calculates the speed of the object and adapts our eye movement to it. This in itself is an enormous achievement, yet our brain can do even more than that. In the real world, a car will typically accelerate or brake faster than, say, a pedestrian. But the control of eye movement in fact responds more sensitively to changes in the speed of fast moving objects than slow moving objects.
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Oct 1st 2008Drug InformationEye Health
Scientists of the University of Granada (Spain) and the San Cecilio Teaching Hospital (Granada) have determined for the first time the causes for the blindness produced by corneal oedema and have identified the genes which cause it.
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Oct 1st 2008Drug InformationEye Health
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISPH) announced today it has submitted a clinical protocol and request for Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a pivotal Phase 3 environmental trial with Prolacria? (diquafosol tetrasodium ophthalmic solution) for the treatment of dry eye disease.
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Oct 1st 2008Drug InformationEye Health
A new Bluetooth system designed primarily for blind people places a layer of information technology over the real world to tell pedestrians about points of interest along their path as they pass them. The Talking Points urban orientation system was developed at the University of Michigan. Researchers will present their work at two conferences on Sept. 24. “Blind people can get from point A to point B.
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Oct 1st 2008Drug InformationEye Health
Carol Cox, Professor of nursing at City University London, urged nurses to be more aware of hereditary genetic auto-immune condition HLA-B27 positivity at the RCN Ophthalmic Nurses Forum Conference on 20 September: “Awareness of this condition is currently very low amongst ophthalmic nurses.
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