Close to four million people in the US have glaucoma
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FDA Concern about Eye Drugs
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Serious Infections From Injections For Back Pain Lead To Recall On October 4th this year the FDA announced possible problems with the New England Compounding Center’s (NECC) Framingham, Massachusetts facility. Subsequently, cases of meningitis have been thought to have a p[possible association with these steroid injections of an NECC product, methylprednisolone acetate. Doctors feel the number of cases will [...]
Eye drops for macular degeneration In 2013?
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Eye drops for macular degeneration may come from drug already approved for other uses. Age related macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of blindness and expected to grow as the population in the US ages. Xibrom (Bromfenac) and its once a day form known as Bromday are eye-drops being used after cataract surgery to [...]
Fireworks And Eye Injuries
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Eye Injuries From Fireworks Almost 2000 In 2010 over 1800 eye injuries from fireworks were seen in emergency rooms. According to the National Fireworks Protection Association there were 8600 people treated for fireworks related injuries in emergency rooms in 2010. Many more injuries are seen in optometrist offices.Most of those injuries occurred on the 4th [...]
Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses
Categories: Contact Lenses, Giant Papillary Conjunctivitis-GPC
Silicone Contact Lenses-What You Need To Know The last 12 years have been a revolution in terms of contact lens materials.Adding silicone has allowed for over a 500% increase in the amount of oxygen passing through the lens to the cornea. Well over half of all new contact lens fits today are using these new [...]
Contact Lens Glaucoma Test
Categories: Contact Lenses, Eye Pressure, glaucoma, pimary open angle glaucoma
Can A Contact Lens Help Diagnose Glaucoma? A company called Sensimed is improving the early diagnosis of glaucoma with a “wired” contact lens. One of the dilemmas in understanding early glaucoma detection is testing the eye pressure at the right time. Eye doctors have found eye pressure fluctuates throughout the day and a single reading may yield the pressure [...]