Sentences with phrase «blinding eye infection»

A study in the Journal of Lipid Research looks at the life stages of a microorganism that causes a blinding eye infection, aiming to find a target for a species - specific drug.

Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

«Fears of potentially blinding complication from Avastin eye injections overblown, says study: Insurance claims data hint at higher infection risk for Lucentis, a more expensive drug.»

The tiny songbirds, which had been blinded by bacterial eye infections, could no longer see to find food.

Untreated eye infections sometimes blind them.

If the dog has an infection of viscera, it may present with symptoms of liver and / or lung disease, while infection of the eye may not be obvious until the dog has gone blind.

She is partially blind in one eye and has a chronic upper respiratory infection, due to being...

When we found Helena we immediately noticed she was blind in both eyes due to serious infections.

Some will need treatment for eye infections, or dry and bulging blind eyes.»

Although details of her life before us were scant, I knew she'd come from a puppy farm in Wales and had been found seriously underweight, with a prolapsed womb, teeth and skin infections, almost blinded by untreated eye disease and cataracts and tied with rope around her neck in the back of an old barn.

The work's source — a horrific episode in the history of the slave trade, in which an infection caused the passengers of a slave ship to suddenly go blind — is obliquely referenced with a view of the ocean and a tiny eye standing in for a button on a coat.