News tagged with eye damage


Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Elevated arginase levels contribute to vascular eye disease such as diabetic retinopathy

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elevated levels of the enzyme arginase contribute to vascular eye damage and Medical College of Georgia researchers say therapies to normalize its levels could halt progression of potentially blinding diseases ...


Sunlight could stop short-sightedness

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A spreading pandemic of myopia among the world’s urban children may be avoided if children spend at least two to three hours each day outdoors.





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Don't add an ER visit to your holiday plans

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UNC emergency physician Abhi Mehrotra, M.D., explains how you can avoid the most common injuries that land people in a hospital emergency department during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday period.


The Future in Two Words: Ionic Liquids

The Future in Two Words: Ionic Liquids

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ionic liquids are molecular solutions that have a wide range of potential applications, including next-generation solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells and lithium batteries.


Remote control: Travelers can keep an eye on home (AP)

Remote control: Travelers can keep an eye on home

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

This holiday season, many travelers will be able to keep a close eye on home. Thanks to new security system technology, including live video feed, you can monitor everything from the front door to the sump ...


Healthy babies by the numbers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When a fetus is smaller than expected for the number of weeks of pregnancy, due to associated problems like a poorly developed heart, health concerns as severe as brain damage can result.


Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...


Study finds lack of VEGF can cause defects similar to dry macular degeneration

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that when the eye is missing a diffusible form of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), i.e. one that when secreted can reach other cells at a distance, the retina ...


A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


1 shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see

One shot of gene therapy and children with congenital blindness can now see

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 1

Born with a retinal disease that made him legally blind, and would eventually leave him totally sightless, the nine-year-old boy used to sit in the back of the classroom, relying on the large print on an electronic ...


Scientists identify roots of diabetic tissue damage

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Results from comprehensive assessments of diabetes' effects on cell metabolism may aid efforts to reduce diabetic damage to nerves, blood vessels and other tissues, according to researchers at Washington ...



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