Category Archives: Blindness Eye Disease
Celebrities With Glaucoma & the New Zioptan Drug
What do soul musician Ray Charles, astronaut John Glenn, tenor Andrea Bocelli, Canadian visual artist Tony Max, guitarist Jose Feliciano, and over other 60.5 million people in the world have in common? Glaucoma. The second leading cause of blindness globally after cataracts, it’s a common but deadly eye disease. What’s particularly insidious about glaucoma is [...]
Retina Implant AG Chip Can Help Blind People See?
A microchip developed by a German company, Retina Implant AG, has helped some blind patients “detect objects with their eyes”. The device is still being tested by its manufacturer. Check out the story below. ***** When he was given a task to read letters, blind Finnish Mikka Terho knew he was reading his name. With [...]
Vitamin A Drug (Fenretinide) Can Prevent Blindness for Older People?
A drug based on Vitamin A, the vitamin found in carrots, shows promising results in preventing the loss of eye sight due to old age. The drug Fenretinide was able to stop the advance of dry age-related macular degeneration during the preliminary clinical trial, researchers announced.
