Categories: Dry Eye Syndrome, Dry Eyes
Light Sensitivity Cause The Cause of sensitivity to light can be from a number of things. The eye controls the amount of illumination reaching inside by varying the size of the pupil. The iris, or colored part of the eye acts like camera diaphragm and enlarges or reduces the pupil size. At night we typically need [...]
Categories: Contact Lenses, Nearsighted -Myopia, Uncategorized
Nearsightedness Controlled With New Contact Lens Technology On June 30 2011 the Myopia Control With Simultaneous Vision Approach Clinical Study was registered as complete at ClinicalTrials.gov. This double blind study involved 100 children testing a contact lens designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness (myopia). Optometry researchers have been studying the interaction between central deatailed [...]
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Macular Degeneration Eye Drops On The Horizon Eye drops instead of injections into the eye may sson become the standard way of treating wet macular degeneration by eye doctors. Squalamine, derived from the livers of certain shark species, is being put on a fast track clinical study. It has been used as an antibiotic in the [...]
Categories: Contact Lens Problems, Eye Allergies, Uncategorized
Acuvue K The Contact Lenses For Itchy Eyes Contact lenses are about to enter a new realm as drug delivery devices. While a number of applications are expected, Acuvue may be the first off the block with an antihistamine releasing lens. In 2007 Vistakon, the manufacturer of the Acuvue lens family, sponsored a clinical study of [...]
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Bumps And Cysts On The White Of The Eyes Can Be Scary Small transparent bumps over the white part of the eye that appear suddenly are usually diagnosed as inclusion cysts or conjunctival lymphangiectasia. Fortunately neither one is nearly as bad as it sounds. Two Common Causes For Cysts On The Eyes Inclusion cysts are small fluid [...]
Categories: Eye Diseases, glaucoma, Macular Degeneration
Fort Collins Eye Doctors-Dr Kisling | Your Eye Health Is Our Number One Concern Eye Doctors Report Macular Degeneration And Other Eye Disease Are Rapidly Increasing According to the National Eye Insitute, a study that was conducted by the Eye Disease Prevalence Research Group found the graying of America is asssociated with vision loss becoming [...]