The Eye Care Blog

November 17th, 2006 Infants and adults who are blind due to a cloudy or damaged cornea are seeing some remarkable results thanks to a new version of an artificial implant that takes the place of the cornea, the clear covering of the eye that serves as our window on the world. The results of operations involving the first infants and children in the world to receive the device, performed by physicians at the University of Rochester Eye Institute and a colleague at Johns Hopkins University, are being announced at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Las Vegas.

April 21st, 2009 Born blind, Lawrence E. Brown III plans to undergo stem cell therapy procedure in China to see the world again.

July 4th, 2008 Duke University has offer something to the glaucoma patients. The university medical center has invented a new infrared camera, that enables the doctors to see the interior structures of the eye in greater detail than other machines do.

July 15th, 2006 Glasgow University scientists have developed an artificial retina that may give back sights to many blind people who lose their sight when the light sensitive part of the eye, the retina, is damaged. Dr Keith Mathieson, who is leading the research, said that they are trying to make the brain fool into believing the retina is still working by implanting a microelectronic device that works in a similar way to a digital camera, into the eye.

March 15th, 2006 A Johns Hopkins Medicine study finds that a single dose of the oral antibiotic azithromycin taken after trichiasis eye surgery can reduce the frequency with which eyelashes turn back in and abrade the eye. The oral antibiotic treatment is more effective than multiple days of treatment with the topical antibiotic ointment Tetracycline, the current method of treatment after trichiasis surgery.

November 20th, 2008 St. John Eye Hospital of Jerusalem has received a major boost when it gets a contribution of $20,000. The money was contributed by the Prem Rawat Foundation.

December 24th, 2008 A group of California University researchers claimed to have developed a new artificial retina to treat major eye diseases like macular degeneration at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), in San Francisco this week. This 60-pixel retina is claimed to be more realistic future treatment then the stem cell therapy.

July 6th, 2009 Eminent senior ophthalmologist at King's college London, professor John Marshall, who was famous for leading the way to find the laser eye surgery procedure to cure short sightedness, yet again successfully established a new laser technique which could prevent blindness effectively. Professor John Marshall's new laser technique can delay the onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the leading cause of blindness for millions who are over-sixties in the western world.