News
VisiVite Blue LIght Basher Press Release
A national press release for VisiVite Blue Light Basher was published this week and distributed to hundreds of news organizations.
anti-VEGF injections
Neovascular Macular Degeneration Patients Can Gain Visual Acuity After Cataract Surgery
Researchers compared the visual outcomes and rate of intraoperative complications in patients with nAMD and control eyes that did not have nAMD that underwent phacoemulsification cataract surgery o...
cataract surgery
Pre-cataract surgery drop-free drug regimen proves to be effective and efficient
A very effective and efficient drug regimen has been in use by physicians at Kaiser Permanente for over a decade to treat patients pre-operatively before cataract surgery.
2020
Is This a Year to be Thankful?
We have a deep yearning of better days ahead. It is this optimism in the face of loss that makes us most human.
corn syrup
Corn Syrup May Trigger Diabetes
A study appearing in the journal Cell Metabolism showed that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) was partially responsible for causing insulin resistance, which in turn, can lead to diabetes.
hemianopia
Study will test the effectiveness of retraining vision after stroke
30% of stroke survivors experience a loss of vision or blindness in half of their field of vision on the right or left side. This condition is known as hemianopia and there is currently no cure or...
gene therapy
Gene therapy technique may offer hope as a glaucoma treatment
A study in Nature Communications details the research that involved a protein known as Protrudin.
iPS cells
World's first iPS transplant of visual cells performed
The transplant team used iPS cells grown from the blood cells of a healthy donor.
age-related macular degeneration
5 Eye Diseases that can lead to Blindness
There are five eye diseases that are the leading causes of blindness and low vision in the United States: age-related macular degeneration, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and eye injurie...