News tagged with fluorescein angiography

Cataract surgery does not appear associated with worsening of age-related macular degeneration

Age-related macular degeneration does not appear to progress at a higher rate among individuals who have had surgery to treat cataract, contrary to previous reports that treating one cause of vision loss worsens the other, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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Shining light on diabetes-related blindness

A group of scientists in California is trying to develop a cheaper, less invasive way to spot the early stages of retinal damage from diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in American adults, before it leads ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

'Window into the brain' reveals deadly secrets of malaria

Looking at the retina in the eyes of patients with cerebral malaria has provided scientists with a vital insight into why malaria infection in the brain is so deadly. In a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and Fight for ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Combating blindness is vision of University of Tennessee

Millions of people at risk of becoming blind could one day be helped by an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology originally intended to understand semiconductor defects. The project takes advantage of the Department of ...

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created Feb 08, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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