An exciting announcement by IRIDEX Corporation about a scientific research outcome contrasting outcomes attained in treating DME (diabetic macular edema) employing IRIDEX MicroPulse Laser against those acquired by the established benchmark care ETDRS laser procedure. By the conclusion of a year’s time, IRIDEX MicroPulse procedure had analogous efficacy like the ETDRS (Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study) in treating DME. Furthermore, retinal sensitiveness in eyes among the IRIDEX treatment set showed improvement. In the ETDRS set, there was a decrease in retinal sensitiveness. There were no noticeable indicators of laser harm to tissues of the retina among the IRIDEX set while people from the ETDRS set were observed to develop localization of laser scarring. This pioneering laser  [...] 

A dodgy boozing game fondly dubbed ‘vodka eyeballing’ is catching the fancy of a lot of people on ‘YouTube’. Individuals should be sentient that any person pouring vodka direct inside his/her eyes would risk harming the epithelial cell surface – mostly contributing to pains and infections. What is even more serious about the vodka eyeballing practice is that it could cause lasting eye sight harm by obliterating endothelial cells situated in the deep set corneal layers of a person’s eye. This kind of damage is improbable, thought likely. The cornea is the translucent external portion of the eyes which functions by focussing light and providing a great deal of visual power. Based on the extent of the alcoholic drink being employed and the span of time it has been in-contact with the  [...] 

Plastic lens implants within the eye could be a major vision booster for scores of people suffering from short sightedness. Novel studies indicate that the method has analogous efficacy as that offered by laser eye surgery and in several situations surpassing it. It is a completely safe procedure wherein a small lens modifies the angle at which entry of light within the eye occurs which aids in facilitating clear focus. It is a mere fifteen minute procedure and does not require replacement in future. A new-fangled research conducted at the Moorfields Eye Hospital, London observed that people post-surgery did not need eye glasses and had vision analogous to those people who had undergone laser eye surgery. Among those still requiring eye glasses for driving, had vision which was in fact somewhat  [...] 

An eye surgery classically performed on patients having acute nearsightedness might be as safe and effectual as standard laser eye surgery in case of a patients having less acute kind of nearsightedness. This latest study finding was printed in the newest edition of ‘The Cochrane Library’. Investigators from the Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London did a review of 3 clinical studies which arbitrarily allotted patients to varying kinds of surgical procedures employed for rectifying myopia or nearsightedness. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), nearsightedness is the principal reason for impaired eyesight worldwide. In the United States alone, thirty-two million individuals in the age of forty years and more have myopia. The more prevalently done laser eye surgery  [...] 

Jaume Pauné, the brainchild behind the innovatory novel contact lens devised a non-surgical method of improving eyesight quality among scores of individuals. Due to his innovatory work in this area, Mr. Jaume Pauné has been granted the National Award from the Spanish Association of Opticians and Optometrists. Pauné, a Master’s Degree holder in Optometry and Vision Sciences has designed the foremost contact lens which could rectify hyperopia while not needing refractive surgery via a method which reshapes the cornea. The contact lens employs a technique known as orthokeratology which brings about corneal reshaping for correcting eyesight flaws ranging from mild to moderate ranging. Orthokeratology also known as Ortho-K employs gas-porous eye contacts for reshaping the cornea to rectify  [...] 

Vision CRC Researchers from Australia lately proclaimed that myopia (short-sightedness) could now be brought under control with novel technology. This radical detection was the outcome of studies performed by the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) collaborators. Myopia is known to afflict over 1.5 billion individuals worldwide and 2/3rds of those being Asians. In case not checked, the figures are anticipated to touch over two billion by the end of decade. In the United States, nearly forty-two percent of the populace is affected with myopia. Triumphant fundamental studies on the nature and reason of myopia has led to a breakthrough that peripheral retinal image dons a crucial role in stimulation of eye development and short-sightedness. Large-scaled clinical studies examining specs  [...] 

A trial conducted in Britain indicates that a disorder known as FES or floppy eyelid syndrome has strong links with OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) meaning that physicians looking for FES in a person must additionally check for presence of obstructive sleep apnea and conversely. The study illustrates factors common in FES and OSA and definite discovery on the manner in which FES development occurs which would improve diagnosis and treatment. Individuals having obstructive sleep apnea encounter numerous health problems, the nastiest being risk of fatality due to respiration slowing down or stopping while asleep. OSA could be contributory to or be exacerbated by hypertension, diabetes, being overweight or obese and other general issues. Study helmed by Dr. Daniel Ezra, Moorfields Eye Hospital,  [...] 

Researchers from U.S. have made a major breakthrough employing a type of gene therapy which does not entail using altered viruses. Researchers have described the manner in which they employed a non-virus, man-made nanoparticle carter for improving and recouping vision in mice having retinitis pigmentosa, a heritable condition typified by advancing eyesight failure and eventually sightlessness. Muna Naash, Ph.D, an investigator involved in the study stated that they were hopeful that their research outcomes would be helpful in creating a treatment for the incapacitating sightlessness linked with retinitis pigmentosa as well as other heritable and attained retinal conditions. He further explained that condensed DNA nanoparticles are an enthralling therapy approach for such conditions and they  [...] 

Investigators have pointed out that compounds donning a crucial part for several of the health advantages of green tea are able to permeate the tissues present in the eyes and have anti-oxidant activities. Since long green tea has been plugged for several advantages to health which encompass being capable of combating cardiovascular ailments and cancer, with all due regard to green tea’s elevated concentrations of ailment-combating antioxidant presence known as catechin. Investigators have stated that catechin is amongst several antioxidants, inclusive of vitamin E, zeaxanthin, vitamin C and lutein that have been believed to assist in safeguarding the fine tissues present in the eyes from eye conditions like glaucoma and several others. However, several studies conducted till date has not  [...] 

Patients who were checked in privately run facilities having reimbursement from Medicare had an over 5.5 times greater likelihood of undergoing routinely performed cataract surgery in comparison to those having received tending from the Department of Veteran Affairs. This is a perceptible sign that the regularity of cataract surgery could be respondent to monetary inducement to any one or the duo medical facilities and the doctors that performed the method. There is uncertainty among the authors of the 8-year study of the reason behind the discrepancy in cataract surgery known that the huge mainstream of older-age experts are registered in VA as well as Medicare, duo being government-backed systems. Dr. Dustin French, asst. Prof. of medicine, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, a researcher at  [...]