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ViaLase, Inc., a clinical-stage medical technology company focused on addressing unmet needs in the conventional glaucoma treatment paradigm, announced that it has received CE (Conformité Européenne) Mark approval in the [...]

Sight Sciences, an eyecare technology company focused on developing and commercializing nterventional technologies intended to transform care and improve patients' lives, reported the results as published in the journal Clinical [...]

2024 JUN 8 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- A new study on Eye Diseases and Conditions - Neovascular Glaucoma is [...]

2024 MAY 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on glaucoma is the subject of a new report. According [...]

2024 MAY 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in glaucoma. According to news reporting originating from [...]

Byline: Nandita Vijayasimha Ophthalmologists work closely with patients to ensure early detection and intervention to arrest vision loss as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and AMD (age-related macular degeneration) loom large across [...]

Byline: Pradeep. Panigrahi Dear Editor, We went through the article titled 'Assessment of quality of life in glaucoma patients in a tertiary care center in Eastern India' by Sen et [...]

Byline: María. Rojo-Arnao, José. Martinez-de-la-Casa, Oscar. Albis-Donado, Giovanni. Yaòez-Castro, Raquel. Maroto-Cejudo, Jesús. Téllez, Ricardo. Menoyo-Calatayud Purpose: This study aims to assess the effectiveness and safety of combining the Preserflo[TM] MicroShunt [...]

Byline: Arun. Narayanaswamy, Shana. Sood, Sahil. Thakur Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) has experienced a resurgence in interest, primarily driven by promising findings from the Laser in Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension [...]

Vision has been restored in mice with damaged optic nerves, raising hope for glaucoma treatment THE vision of mice with damaged optic nerves has been partly restored by generating new [...]

2024 FEB 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- New research on Biotechnology - Gene Therapy is the subject of a [...]

With an aging population, optometrists will be seeing more glaucoma patients in their practices. It is estimated that approximately 3 million Americans currently are being treated for glaucoma and that [...]

As optometrists, we frequently deal with the complex diagnosis of glaucoma. Although most patients have some awareness of glaucoma, many confuse it with other conditions and often misunderstand the intricacy [...]

While intraocular pressure (IOP) is a modifiable risk factor for glaucoma, some glaucoma patients still progress despite having reasonable pressures. For this reason, augmenting our traditional therapies with 'IOP-independent' treatment [...]

Byline: Chandrima. Paul Objective: To investigate the intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering effect of topical preserved tafluprost 0.0015% in a tertiary hospital setting in India. Methods: This is a retrospective chart [...]

PolyActiva, a Melbourne-based ophthalmology company developing a novel proprietary drug delivery platform, has reported promising interim results from an ongoing phase 2a clinical study for its PA5108 ocular implant in [...]

Byline: Tarannum. Mansoori, Shaima. Saleem Background: The Ahmed Glaucoma Valve (AGV, New World Medical Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA) is a glaucoma drainage device commonly used in the treatment of [...]

An estimated 80 million people worldwide have glaucoma--with 95% of cases being open-angle glaucoma (OAG)--including more than three million Americans currently living with the disease. The worldwide figure is forecast [...]

Niacinamide and Pyruvate for Glaucoma Forty-two patients (mean age, 65 years) being treated with intraocular pressure-lowering medication for open-angle glaucoma, who had moderate visual field loss in at least one [...]

A recent survey assessed the practice preferences of ophthalmologists for the initial management of glaucoma. The researchers hypothesized that the multitude of options and accumulated evidence for primary open-angle glaucoma [...]

As researchers unlock mysteries surrounding the caveolin-1 (CAV1) scaffolding protein in the cells of the trabecular meshwork (TM), their efforts may lead to new therapies to enhance the conventional outflow [...]

Byline: Malleswari. Medikonda, Totli. Mayuri, Manmeet. Singh A 28-year-old male patient was referred to us for the management of hypotonous maculopathy developed post trabeculectomy for angle recession glaucoma. After examination, [...]

Byline: Suraj. Chaurasiya, Pradeep. Agarwal, Mukesh. Kumar This study aims to report the side effects of oral divalproex sodium in a 55-year-old woman presented with a bilateral sudden painless decrease [...]

Byline: Bryan. H Ang, Hnin. Oo, Ralene. H Sim, Leonard. L Yip The iStent inject is an ab-interno trabecular microbypass stent used in the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma. Intraoperative [...]

Byline: Radhika. Natarajan, Madhuvanthi. Mohan Glaucoma drainage implants (GDI) are sometimes used in the treatment of refractory glaucoma associated with keratoplasty. An important complication of GDI is the exposure of [...]

We seem to be on track to have a paradigm shift in the arena of glaucoma every generation or so. I must admit that during my lectures I enjoy pushing [...]

A decade after their debut, these procedures now dominate the surgical sphere. Which options are most popular today, and where do ODs fit into the clinical picture? The traditional stepwise [...]

There's perhaps no better example of the direct link between the foods we eat and the health of our eyes than the story of the carotenoids, those colorful pigments found [...]

When the XEN Gel Stent (Allergan) was introduced, we began using it as a less invasive alternative for patients facing trabeculectomy. Over the years, many of us have done hundreds [...]

As the patient population ages, the incidence of AMD increases with it. The combination of glaucoma with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) poses a challenge for us to preserve vision, although [...]