News tagged with antibiotic eye drops

Over-the-counter eye drops raise concern over antibiotic resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of antibiotic eye drops for conjunctivitis has increased by almost half since they became available over the counter at chemists in 2005, data obtained by Oxford University researchers ...

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created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Investigational eye treatment: Corneal collagen crosslinking research study

The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, with Principal Investigator, Peter S. Hersh M.D., is conducting a research study to study the safety and effectiveness of corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) using Riboflavin/Dextran and ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toward simplifying treatment of a serious eye infection

Scientists are reporting development of a potential new way of enabling patients with bacterial keratitis to stick with the extraordinarily intensive treatment needed for this potentially blinding eye infection. ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Emerging tick-borne disease: A domestic ecological mystery

Stories of environmental damage and their consequences always seem to take place far away and in another country, usually a tropical one with lush rainforests and poison dart frogs.

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created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Bausch & Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits

(AP) -- Contact lens maker Bausch & Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, "without ...

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created May 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Type of vitamin B1 could treat common cause of blindness

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a form of vitamin B1 could become a new and effective treatment for one of the world's leading causes of blindness.

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created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

'Stuffy nose' mouse: A promise to help treat 31 million with sinusitis

Mice with inflamed nasal tissue being tested at a Johns Hopkins laboratory may be unable to tell if something smells bad or good, but their sensory deficit is nothing to turn up a nose at.

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New discovery may improve treatment of one of the world's leading causes of blindness

An inflammatory eye condition that is one of the world’s leading causes of blindness could be treated much more effectively and easily thanks to a new discovery here.

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created Sep 29, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Stanford researchers calculate the mathematics of terror

George Habash, a militant and former secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, once characterized terrorism as a "thinking man's game." Using mathematics, researchers at Stanford University's ...

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created Mar 06, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Picking particles faster than one at a time

Computer scientists and biologists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed software that can select tens of thousands of high-quality images of biological molecules from electron ...

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created Dec 01, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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