From new drug therapies to micro-telescopic implants, macular degeneration research abounds Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD) leads to vision loss and, in some cases, significant central vision loss in millions of people. It is a leading cause of legal blindness in the United States. Macular...
In the absence of any macular degeneration, there is no research published that shows that taking vitamins can prevent macular degeneration. However, the AREDS study did show, if there was disease in only one eye, that taking proper vitamin supplements prevented or slowed the progress of the dis...
Age related macular degenerationGene polymorphismHigh altitude areaResearch progressAge-related macular degeneration(AMD)is a kind of progressive eye disease that seriously damages vision,and it is one of the important causes of blindness.In recent years,a large number of studies have found that there...
Research Researchers are looking into many new treatments. Drugs that lower cholesterol have shown promise in cutting back on the fatty deposits that cause dry macular degeneration. And low doses of X-ray radiation might help break up problem blood vessels in the wet type. New drugs being teste...
In a news release, she pointed out that the disease has a great impact on a patient’s quality of life. “For patients suffering from macular degeneration in the intermediate stage and advanced stages, this takes away people’s ability to read their own medications, do ...
Age-Related Macular Degeneration Health Disparities Although White people of European descent appear more likely to get AMD than other groups, anyone can get it. Research has found differences in how people of color are diagnosed with and treated for the condition. ...
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(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine today published exciting new findings in the hunt for a better treatment for macular degeneration. In studies using mice, a class of drugs known as MDM2 inhibitors prove
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have discovered a genetic biomarker that is associated with age-related macular degeneration and delayed rod-mediated dark adaptation—the first vi...