Sentences with phrase «blind patients»
She remembers advising a nurse whose blind patient refused hydration, a decision that would lead to the patient's death.
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The falling - out between WPI and Mikovits came about after a second Science paper that she co-authored reported that nine labs — including WPI's — could not reliably find XMRV or related viruses in blinded patient samples.
In the first published results from a clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells, two legally blind patients who received an injection of hESC - derived cells in one eye have experienced no harmful side effects and appear to have slightly better vision.
«This is the first time that an oral drug has improved the visual function of blind patients with LCA,» says the study's lead author, Dr. Robert Koenekoop, who is director of the McGill Ocular Genetics Laboratory at The Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC, and a Professor of Human Genetics, Paediatric Surgery and Ophthalmology at McGill University.
Convex lights are gentle on the eyes, so you won't temporarily blind your patients.
A new gene therapy treatment has restored some sight in a handful of blind patients suffering from Leber's congenital amaurosis, a syndrome in which, because of a broken or missing gene called RPE65, retinal photoreceptor cells malfunction and eventually die.
Samantha de Silva, the lead author of the study said: «There are many blind patients in our clinics and the ability to give them some sight back with a relatively simple genetic procedure is very exciting.
A more recent study from Retina Implant showed even greater promise, with videos showing one previously blind patient who could identify apples and bananas, and who could tell when his name had been misspelled.
Leaders of two clinical trials report this week that a treatment that restored some vision to blind patients begins to fade within a few years.
More and more newly blind patients pour into the facility, which is now suffering from overcrowding, malnourishment, and serious injuries that receive no medical attention, as the inhabitants are not allowed off the premises and no uninfected are allowed on.
Whether it is macular degeneration which slowly and incurably blinds the patient, or Parkinson's disease that causes uncontrollable tremors that make reading a book nearly impossible, e-readers may be the necessary tool to bringing the patient back to some of the joy they found in reading.
The Oxford team has also been trialling an electronic retina successfully in blind patients, but the genetic approach may have advantages in being simpler to administer.
«I remember putting them on and looking up and I saw my husband who I'd been married to for eight years and had never seen before,» one blind patient who uses the eSight 3 told CNET.
The first group of stories is related to adult stem cells (although this is not explicitly stated or explained): the discovery of stem cells during WWII, the amazing rescue of two boys in the early 1980s using stem cell - based skin grafts, and the present - day treatment of blind patients in a stem cell clinic in India.
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that are intended to create an artificial form of useful vision to blind patients, today announced that Dr. Robert Greenberg, MD, PhD has resigned from the Company» s Board of Directors and the Company, effective April 3, 2018.
Eighteen years ago, a blind patient saw a similar flash of light when Mark Humayun, an ophthalmologist and biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California's Doheny Eye Institute, placed an electrode directly on the person's retina during surgery.
Dismissing such caveats, Theodore Friedmann says restoring vision to blind patients is quite enough proof that gene therapy works.
Vision can be restored in some blind patients with cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implant.