News tagged with optic nerve
Study explains why light worsens migraine headaches
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 10, 2010 |
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Ask anyone who suffers from migraine headaches what they do when they're having an attack, and you're likely to hear "go into a dark room." And although it's long been known that light makes migraines worse, the reason why ...
Steroid injections may slow diabetes-related eye disease
Dec 28, 2009 |
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Researchers led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have found that injecting a corticosteroid, triamcinolone, directly into the eye may slow the progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, a complication ...
Clinical Trial Examines Drug's Potential for Protecting the Optic Nerve
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Acute optic neuritis, an inflammation of the optic nerve, doesn't occur all that often. But for those who experience it, the vision loss, pain and nerve damage that often result are no small ...
Coaxing injured nerve fibers to regenerate by disabling 'brakes' in the system
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Brain and spinal-cord injuries typically leave people with permanent impairment because the injured nerve fibers (axons) cannot regrow. A study from Children's Hospital Boston, published in the December 10 ...
Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease
Nov 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
First in New York: Bionic technology aims to give sight to woman blinded beginning at age 13
Oct 21, 2009 |
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A 50-year-old New York woman who was diagnosed with a progressive blinding disease at age 13 was implanted with an experimental electronic eye implant that has partially restored her vision. A team led by Dr. Lucian V. Del ...
Cancer treatment controls macular edema related to diabetes and to cataract surgery
Jul 31, 2009 |
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This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports on use of bevacizumab (Avastin), to benefit diabetic patients with macular edema as well as people who develop cystoid macular edema ...
Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.
Genetic sleuth solves glaucoma mystery
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Dr. Michael Walter is one good gumshoe. The University of Alberta medical geneticist has cracked the case of WDR36, a gene linked to glaucoma.
MRI scans can predict effects of MS flare-ups on optic nerve
Dec 16, 2008 |
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One of the most pernicious aspects of multiple sclerosis (MS) — its sheer unpredictability — may finally be starting to yield to advanced medical imaging techniques.
New marker for raised intracranial pressure
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of the thickness of the optic nerve sheath are a good marker for raised intracranial pressure (ICP). New research published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Ca ...
