News tagged with eye disease

Solar-panel-like retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind

(Phys.org) -- Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Seeing a diagnosis: How an eye test could aid Alzheimer's detection

A simple and inexpensive eye test could aid detection and diagnosis of major neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's at an earlier stage than is currently possible, according to new research by UCL scientists.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy improves vision

German scientist Paul Ehrlich found what he coined the "magic bullet" in the early 20th century upon developing the world’s first effective treatment of syphilis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Discovery of 'bioelectric' arteries opens path to heart disease treatment

Bionic eyes and limbs made television's six million dollar man an icon, but new research suggests our existing biological structure already exhibits a valuable electrical property. Scientists have found that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Webb telescope technologies already helping human eyes

Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stem cells from patients make 'early retina in a dish'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soon, some treatments for blinding eye diseases might be developed and tested using retina-like tissues produced from the patient's own skin, thanks to a series of discoveries reported by ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Historic first images of rod photoreceptors in the living human eye

Scientists today reported that the tiny light-sensing cells known as rods have been clearly and directly imaged in the living eye for the first time. Using adaptive optics (AO), the same technology astronomers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Jeopardy!'-winning computer delving into medicine

Some guy in his pajamas, home sick with bronchitis and complaining online about it, could soon be contributing to a digital collection of medical information designed to help speed diagnoses and treatments.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Salmon baby food? Babies need omega-3s and a taste for fish, scientist says

Has your toddler eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child's diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough gene therapy prevents retinal degeneration

In one of only two studies of its kind, a study from researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts demonstrates that non-viral gene therapy ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ingredient in red wine may prevent some blinding diseases

found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Crowded houses: Why our peripheral vision may not be as random as we think

As you read this, you may notice that the word directly in front of you is clear, but all the surrounding words are hard to make out. For most people, this effect - known as 'crowding' - is not a problem. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researcher predicts stem cell fate with software

A software program created by an engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) can not only predict the types of specialized cells a stem cell will produce, but also foresee the outcome before the stem cell even ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify an immune cell linked to inflammation and scarring in Graves' eye disease

A cell type that causes significant scarring in lung disease appears to have a similar effect in Graves' disease, University of Michigan Health System researchers have found. The cells, called fibrocytes, are present at a ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Ancient Egyptian cosmetics: 'Magical' makeup may have been medicine for eye disease

There's more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian royals those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the alluring ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eye disease

This is a partial list of human eye diseases and disorders.

The World Health Organization publishes a classification of known diseases and injuries called the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems or ICD-10. This list uses that classification.

For more information about Eye disease, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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