The Eye Care Blog

The FDA has approved Allergan’s once-daily prescription eye drop Lumigan as a first-line treatment for elevated intraocular pressure associated with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Biopharmaceutical company Genaera Corporation has commenced a multi-center phase II clinical trial to explore the efficacy and safety of higher doses of its investigational drug Evizon for the treatment of the eye disease, wet age-related macular degeneration.

The Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh ( NNJS) and the Embassy of India in Nepal have signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in connection with conducting Nepal-India Friendship Eye Camp in various districts of Nepal.

A state-of-the-art, soft, foldable lens (approved by the Food and Drug Administration) is inserted behind the iris during a quick, outpatient procedure now being done by three eye surgeons in Indianapolis and several others throughout the state.

A total of 6 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean will receive free eye treatment thanks to Venezuela’s Mision Milagro (Miracle Mission), President Hugo Chavez said Thursday.

It is important to not have extremely high expectations about laser eye surgery, This treatment may not be suitable for some people.

How bad it is to stare at the computer screen- according to Dr Amar Agarwal, extensive use of computers reduces the blinking rate of the person. Due to this, the water flow across the eyes reduces drastically and leads to dryness of the eye that causes the syndrome.

Aging fighter pilots can now remain in the cockpit longer, reducing annual recruiting needs. And recruits whose bad vision once would have disqualified them from the special forces are now eligible, making the competition for these coveted slots even tougher.

Thanks to a Stanford telemedicine program, doctors can remotely diagnose Retinopathy of Prematurity, or ROP, a condition that threatens 80,000 premature babies annually in the United States and causes blindness in up to 600. Babies can be diagnosed quickly using the new technology.

A cluster of 4 cases of soft contact lens–associated Fusarium keratitis seen at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), during a 5-week span in early 2006 and compare this cluster with the number of previous cases of culture-positive Fusarium keratitis seen at UCSF during the prior 30 years.