Computer Vision Syndrome: Electronics Take Their Toll on Eye Health

Tweet

Do your eyes spend more than 4 hours a day looking at the screen of an electronic device? If so, you are at risk for computer vision syndrome. Computer vision syndrome symptoms include eye strain, fatigue, dry eyes and headaches from staring at a screen too long.

To find out if you are [...]

Diabetic Retinopathy: New Video Diagnostic Technology

Tweet

Image via www.myhealth.va.gov

Diabetic retinopathy should be easier to detect with a new video imaging technique being developed in Australia.

 

At the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress researchers presented on how retinal video recording is as accurate at detecting diabetic retinopathy as the commonly established diagnostic practices – [...]

iPhone Good Enough for Eye Doctors to Examine Patients’ Results

Tweet

Image via CDC.gov

Maybe they will start calling it the EyePhone…

At the  American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa Council of Ophthalmology (MEACO) Joint Meeting in Chicago researchers described how images on the iPhone are of high enough quality that they can be used by eye doctors who want a [...]

Regeneration of Human Cells Could Reverse Macular Degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa

Tweet

Image by tico24

Shakespeare’s fictional witches made a potion with eye of newt, but now some very real researchers are looking to the regenerative powers of newt to save human sight.

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to study regenerative potential [...]

Muscles Can Respond to Light and Help Stroke Patients and Others

Tweet

Image from bio.sandia.gov

The eyes tend to get all the credit for being the organs that are receptive to light, but scientists at Stanford University are fining that muscles can respond to light as well.  A study of mice whose nerve cells have been coated with specialized light-sensing proteins are helping researchers [...]