Category: Research
... within one generation, and high myopia is a leading cause of blindness. When mammalian eyes develop myopia, the elastic coating of ... trials in humans. Research Development of a new treatment to prevent blindness from degenerative myopia ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... This includes refractive errors (like short-sightedness), and blindness caused by macular degeneration, high myopia and glaucoma. Our ... refractive errors like myopia. High myopia is now a leading cause of blindness worldwide, and within one generation has reached epidemic ... and treatments for visual disorders including refractive errors, blindness, high myopia and glaucoma. sally mcfadden, visual disorders ...
Category: News & Articles
... to researching myopia – one of the world’s leading causes of blindness. Her team were part of the ground-breaking study which totally ... to impact 50% of the world’s population and be the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Associate Professor McFadden discovered cells in ... the team has done, we have the opportunity to stamp out preventable blindness through myopia,” Mrs Powell explained. “That’s an ...
Category: Research
... retinal detachment and is now one of the leading causes of complete blindness. Based on the current progression of myopia in young people, ... will suffer from the debilitating consequences of very low vision or blindness from high myopia by the end of the decade. Spectacles (of ...
Category: General
... of diabetes differ between types. T1D adults have greater risk of blindness resulting from damage to small vessels in the retina. This ...
Category: Research
... within one generation, and high myopia is a leading cause of blindness. When mammalian eyes develop myopia, we find the eye initially ...
Category: News & Articles
... for babies such as cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities and blindness. Professor Roger Smith and his team at HMRI and the Mothers & ...
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... higher rates of heart attack, amputations, strokes, kidney failure, blindness and even premature death. “DAP+ is specifically designed to ...
Category: News & Articles
... problems that are linked to diabetes including heart attacks, stroke, blindness, amputations, kidney failure and premature death.” Good ...