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After 12 or 24 monthly injections, ranibizumab, one of three currently available vascular endothelial growth factor antibodies, caused regression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in at least 75% of patients who had diabetic macular edema and whose DR severity put them at the highest risk of progression to proliferative DR.

Andrew Hartwick, PhD, Associate Professor at The College of Optometry at The Ohio State University discussed his research surrounding traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients who experience increased light sensitivity, or photophobia.

It may seem like elite athletes have a leg up on non-sports players when it comes to eye control, but research out of the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom says that’s not exactly the case.

Patients with the hereditary degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) may delay their loss of daytime vision by taking a traditional Chinese plant remedy Lycium barbarum also known as goji berry or wolfberry.

A team of surgeons has demonstrated a surgical model using cadavers for total human eye allotransplantation.

"We hope there are strategies for regeneration of the optic nerve and making synaptic connections to the higher order brain structure, because those are the key issues."

A battery-operated Liftware utensil was developed in 2014 to help Parkinson’s disease patients manage their hand tremors and conquer daily activities.

Older adults who suffer from sleep problems also experience reduced brain volume, new research finds.

Pregnant women who obtain treatment for acute migraine experience higher rates of preeclampsia, preterm delivery, and deliver babies with low birth-weight.

Athletes with psychosomatic symptoms or medical complaints like aches and pains without concrete physical causes can prolong recovery time after suffering a concussion.

Is a methacetin breath test superior to MELD scores in predicting mortality in liver failure?

Being overweight in itself is a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), but people of normal body mass index (BMI) can have lean NAFLD and if so they are in even greater danger.

A long held myth that epilepsy interferes with conception has been busted.

Whether it is learning from the military or finding consensus among the governing bodies of youth and scholastic sports there are steps that can be taken to make them safe and help limit the risk of injuries and concussions.

The issue of concussions and potential brain damage has made considerable headlines in recent years. What the cause and diagnosis of these issues are remain to be determined.

With a unique delivery method alemtuzumab, also known as Lemtrada has proven to be an effective treatment option for multiple sclerosis. While careful monitoring is required new data has shown benefits for the right patient population.

Susan Schneider Williams, spouse of the late Robin Williams spoke with MD Magazine about the several symptoms the actor presented up to a year before his death that made it difficult to diagnose what he was suffering from: Lewy Body Disease (LBD).

Severe neurological symptoms, not liver failure, should be the signal to start thinking about a liver transplant in Wilson Disease, French researchers say.

Researchers at the American Academy of Neurology’s 68th Annual Meeting reported analyses of the phase III trial of the investigational glucocorticoid (deflazacort/Marathon Pharmaceuticals), which was previously found to improve muscle strength in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients.

An Australian physician is sending generic DAAs made in China and India to patients with hepatitis in the US. It's part of an NIH-approved clinical trial.

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has released revised guidelines for using botulinum toxin to treat spasticity, cervical dystonia, blepharospasm, and migraine headache.

As more research is collected about Tecfidera's usage since clinical trials and approval there continue to be signs that it can be a good treatment option for patients with multiple sclerosis, especially in the earliest stages.

Technology has many uses in modern life. Recent research looked at whether advanced games and other apps could help improve cognitive function in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Liver transplant does not always mean the end of a hepatitis infection. A California team has had success treating recurrent HCV with DAAs.

Public health concerns in Europe mount as data show Syrian refugees have higher rates of HBV than residents in host countries.

Treating patients suffering from primary generalized tonic-clonic (PGTC) seizures with once-daily 8mg doses of adjunctive perampanel (Fycompa/Eisai) can effectively control the seizures, recent study finds.

The Zika virus, the latest virus to warrant public health concerns, could be associated with an autoimmune disorder similar to multiple sclerosis.

Delivering on predictions made at major liver disease meetings over the past year, researchers said two experimental panvirals are curing hepatitis patients who had not been helped by earlier direct-acting antivirals.

In what researchers said was the first study of DAAs in children with HCV, UK researchers reported the drugs were effective and well tolerated. Questions remain about whther they might have any negative effects farther out.

A team from Germany found patients with acute HCV infection could be cured in six weeks with DAA treatment, half the recommended time.