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The U.K. Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson recently warned against buying flu drugs over the Internet expressing concern about potentially dangerous counterfeit drugs.US Customs agents have intercepted a shipment of Tamiflu entering the United States that was vitamin C capsules packaged as Tamiflu.and had been sold over the Internet. The World Health Organization believes [...]
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The National Eye Institute has completed a study last year (October 2008) on the treatment of convergence insufficiency and believes it has found a more effective eatment method. Convergence Insufficiency occurs when the eyes have trouble staying turned in and staying aligned for near tasks such as reading,computers games, and near crafts. This condition is [...]
Categories: Eye Diseases, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
Research on eye genes that cause or predispose individual to eye disease is a fast growing area which will probably find it’s way into your eye doctors office in the next 5-10 years. Most genetic tests are not perfect in the sense they are not diagnostic of an eye disease, but they frequently tell optometrists [...]
Categories: amblyopia, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, strabismus
If you have a child between the age of 8-27 with lazy eye (amblyopia), the National Eye Institute will soon be soliciting volunteers for a study on a new form of treatment involving the drugs levodopa and carbidopa. These drugs are precursors for the production of dopamine , one of the main neurotransmitters, and often [...]
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Eye Nutrition, Eye Symptoms, Eye Vitamins, Fort Collins Eye Doctor, Fort Collins Optometrist, Vision Insurance, Vision Service Plan -VSP
NASA and the National Eye Institute have been working together to develop a non-invasive method to measure very early development of cataracts and monitor any progression. This is important to astronauts receiving higher daily dose of radiation, especially on a long mission such as the future Mars flight, but there are great potential applications for [...]
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Macular Degeneration
Fascinating information from out for this world on new directions in eyecare from the NEI: NEI Press Release NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Eye Institute For Immediate Release Thursday, January 8, 2009 From Outer Space to the Eye Clinic: New Cataract Early Detection Technique Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration A compact fiber-optic probe [...]