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Phase 2a trial of novel topical anti-angiogenic agent regorafenib shows lack of efficacy in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

According to Henry Kaplan, MD, University of Louisville School of Medicine, "One has to recognize that there are multiple approaches like gene therapy, neuroprotection, stem cell transplantation, and pharmacologic manipulation of other genes really holds the greatest benefit in terms of trying to reverse the inevitable loss of vision."

Henry Kaplan, MD, KY Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville School of Medicine, is focusing his efforts on figuring out how to preserve or recover lost central vision in patients with retinitis pigmentosa.

Neeraj Agarwal, PhD, FARVO, shared his unique perspective of marrying his prior clinical research to his current institutional landscape at the NIH.

Gene therapy with the CRISPR/Cas9 system corrects mutations identified with patient-specific models that use stem cells generated from skin.

Non-destructive imaging and functional assessment of retinal structures formed from human stem cells confirms their similarity to the adult retina.

Study results show that transplanted human retinal stem cells rescue photoreceptors in rabbit retinas for 8 months.

Diabetic retinapathy is one of the leading causes of blindness

Andrew Hartwick, PhD, The College of Optometry at The Ohio State University wants to understand why regardless of normal, standard vision tests, there is still clearly something wrong with pateints' sight.

Study results show that the majority of patients with retinal neovascularization due to proliferative diabetic retinopathy treated with bevacizumab experience total, long-term regression of their symptoms.

Aflibercept exerts anti-angiogenic effects against galectin-1, a galactoside-binding lectin protein and novel angiogenic factor associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

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.