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Keratoconus News

Health News Posted on May 26, 2012

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Electronic Contact Lens to Monitor Blood Sugar
Researchers at Microsoft are in the process of developing electronic contact lenses with glucose sensor to monitor sugar levels wirelessly. The initiative by Microsoft Research...

Human�s Clear Sight Clarified by Cornea Gene
When it comes to vision a transparent cornea is vital, it is the very reason for eye to have evolved to nourish the cornea without blood vessels. But for millions of people around the world,...

CooperVision Issues Another Statement Over Contact Lens Recall
Following the pressure applied by Food and Drug Administration US based eye-care company, CooperVision has released its second announcement regarding the recall of more than 600,000 Avaira T...

New Microwave Treatment May End Cornea Transplants
A new microwave treatment could prevent hundreds of cornea patients a year needing a transplant. In a new treatment specialists are using microwave probe to heat the cornea to around 60 ...

Special Contact Lens To Prevent Short-Sightedness
A special contact lens can slow the progression of myopia. In certain cases it could halt the short sight problem altogether. The special lens gently reshapes the front surface of the eye du...

Single Donor Cornea Helped Two Patients
Good results were shown with a new surgical approach that used a single donor cornea and two patients were helped from this who had different corneal diseases. In the United States keeping p...

Woman's Cornea and Iris Affected by a Worm
A worm affected a woman's cornea and the iris of her right eye, in what was reported to be an unusual case, in Bihar, India. Radha Devi, a 20 year-old patient, got operated on Saturday a...

New Artificial Cornea gives sight to Blind
A new artificial cornea has helped to give a sight to a man who had been blind for ten years. Norman Simpson, who badly damaged the front of his one eye in an accident, had dropped the h...

Biosynthetic Corneas Restore Vision in Humans
Biosynthetic corneas can help regenerate and repair damaged eye tissue and improve vision in humans, a new study from researchers in Canada and Sweden has shown. The results, from an ear...

Promising Outcomes With Newer Cornea Transplant Surgery
A new analysis of data collected from the Cornea Donor Study (CDS) Investigator Group's 2008 Specular Microscopy Ancillary Study (SMAS) has revealed that one year post-surgery, patients who ...

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