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Eye Care News – Monthly Newsletter March 2011

Drugs to treat age-related blindness

WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with new ways to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the most prevalent type of blindness among the elderly — after figuring out one of its primary causes. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, US, compared eyes donated by deceased AMD patients with those of healthy individuals. The ... Read more >>>.

Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for February 7-14, 2011

Drugs to treat age-related blindness

WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with new ways to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the most prevalent type of blindness among the elderly — after figuring out one of its primary causes. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, US, compared eyes donated by deceased AMD patients with those of healthy individuals. The ... Read more >>>.

Eye Care News – Newsletter for February 7, 2011

Drugs to treat age-related blindness

WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with new ways to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the most prevalent type of blindness among the elderly — after figuring out one of its primary causes. Researchers at the University of Kentucky, US, compared eyes donated by deceased AMD patients with those of healthy individuals. The ... Read more >>>.

Eye Care News – Weekly Newsletter for January 1-3, 2011

Worm sticks between woman's cornea and iris in Bihar

NALANDA - In an unusual case a worm got stuck between a woman’s cornea and the iris of her right eye in Bihar’s Nalanda District.adha Devi, a 20 year-old patient, got operated on Saturday at nearby charitable hospital in the region and is out of danger now. She felt irritation in her right eye ten days ... Read more >>>.

Eye Care News – Monthly Newsletter January 2011

Surgeon for Lasik Surgery Arrested for showing Negligence

NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com) — This is the first time in the history of lasik surgery that a lasik surgeon is arrested due to showing negligence during surgery. Tomoo Mizoguchi, 49, of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, was arrested on suspicion of professional negligence resulting in injury. This is the first time a surgeon who performs the Lasik .... Source  : Surgeon for Lasik Surgery Arrested for showing Negligence.