Sentences with phrase «eye disease not»

Look for signs of eye disease not signs of pain.

Not exact matches

The high price of dealing with the disease reflects not only the cost of medicines but also the management of a range of complications, such as limb amputations and eye problems.

The eye mouse isn't just an IT device, but arms and legs for a patient with advanced disease.

Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

Let us suppose that two men have an eye disease, and one of them submits to the cure and takes whatever medical science advises, even if it is disagreeable, while the other not only does not accept any advice from the doctor, but also lives intemperately.

Why is it that God will never cure amputees, or people who have lost eyes, or who have bad scars from burns, or diseases we can not cure?

Fellow doctors ridiculed Lister's ideas of germ theory — since they «knew» that it was various humors that caused disease, not tiny living beings they could not observe with the naked eye.

Hospitals apply the eye cream because they do not want to run the risk of a baby going blind, but the decision to do so for all newborns was based on a mere two cases of blindness due to these diseases.

But the most important aspect of it is that I can not open my eyes and allow diseases to befall you here.

More than half a million ¹ people with diabetes in England are at increased risk of blindness because they have not received retinal screening2, an essential annual check which tests for eye disease (diabetic retinopathy).

«While we do not know the exact role of sunlight in several eye diseases, we now have a biomarker (iris freckles) indicating high amounts of chronic sunlight exposure,» says author Christoph Schwab, MD, ophthalmologist at the Medical University of Graz, Austria.

While not malignant, eye freckles could indicate the presence or risk of sunlight - triggered eye diseases like cataract or macular degeneration.

In the eye, it's normally highly expressed in the retina, where it appears to play a role in normal visual function, but has not been clearly associated with disease in this back portion of the eye.

Studies of the lens of the eye not only could reveal ways to prevent cataracts but also might illuminate the biology of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other diseases in which cells commit suicide

Eye diseases — such as age - related macular degeneration, as well as a genetic condition called Stargardt's macular dystrophy that afflicts young people — are considered excellent candidates for stem cell therapy because the eye is an immune - privileged site, meaning transplanted cells are not as likely to be rejected as foreign compared with transplants elsewhere.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

Mutations in at least 60 genes are known to cause the disease, and many people are not diagnosed until after a a substantial proportion of photoreceptor cells, the eye's rods and cones, have already degenerated and died.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Called the «Family Traits Inheritance Calculator,» it does not examine disease risks but predicts six variable benign traits, including «eye color» and «muscle performance,» based on how parental DNA would likely combine.

«This work has exposed gaps in the global data, given that many countries have not formally surveyed their populations for eye disease.

While vision screening probably isn't harmful, some age - related eye conditions like macular degeneration and cataracts may be difficult to detect before patients have pronounced symptoms because people in the early stages of these diseases may still be able to read eye charts used to test vision.

According to Dr. Rosamilia, early treatment not only can reduce the pain and severity of the disease, but also can help prevent potential side effects like eye problems, infection, and a condition called post-herpetic neuralgia, which causes pain, numbness, itching and tingling.

Lanza says eye disease is a good place to start with such cell therapies because the eye doesn't reject foreign tissues, so no imunnosuppressive drugs are necessary.

Visual impairment — sight loss often caused by eye disease, trauma, or a congenital or degenerative condition that can not be corrected with glasses or contact lenses — is associated with a poorer quality of life and, when severe, loss of independence.

That's because stem cells must be connected to existing neural networks — something that's not yet possible — whereas gene therapy simply involves making what is left in a diseased eye photosensitive.

Those tests don't give us the details we need to understand the nature of the pathology at the cellular level, so we modeled the disease to perform a systematic analysis of the optic nerve, from its origin in the eyes to termination in the brain.»

• Fifty - eight percent of patients did not have regular follow - up eye exams • Smokers were 20 percent less likely to have exams • Those with less - severe disease and no eye problems were least likely to follow recommendations • Those who had diabetic retinopathy were 30 percent more likely to have follow - up exams

«Getting your eyes checked by an ophthalmologist can reveal the signs of disease that patients aren't aware of.»

The scientists did not limit their study to eye diseases.

The $ 1,000 genome — brought to you by CliffsNotes Heads up, Christmas shoppers: Icelandic company deCODE Genetics has launched a new service that, for a mere $ 985, will take your FedExed cheek swab and scan the enclosed DNA for a sprinkling of genetic variations linked with 20 or so diseases, as well as ancestry and physical traits such as eye color (in case you don't have a mirror handy).

Twenty years after he first stumbled on FOP, Economides and his colleagues report today that the gene mutation shared by 97 % of people with the disease can trigger its symptoms in a manner different than had been assumed — through a single molecule not previously eyed as a suspect.

But, says the study, «the ophthalmic findings did not detect any acute eye disease that could correlate with the lay press reports».

There were also no statements clarifying that currently there is not sufficient evidence to support the routine use of nutritional supplements for primary prevention of eye diseases such as AMD and cataracts..

The researchers detected RPE cells in the eye of the patient with Stargardt disease but not in the patient with age - related macular degeneration.

«Finding a way to control angiogenesis not only provides a target for the development of anti-cancer therapies, but may also prove useful in similarly starving abnormal blood vessel growth elsewhere in the body, like in diabetic eye disease.»

Mice that underwent this procedure developed eye problems like those seen in human patients who have Graves» disease, while the control group of mice did not develop these complications.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

Scientists currently know very little about why these particular cells within the eye do not survive with age and cause problems that lead to a disease called Pigment Dispersion Syndrome (PDS).

If the regression of the temporary blood vessels does not take place, defects arise in the eye, leading to the uncommon but severe disease persistent foetal vasculature syndrome, PFVS.

They are seeking ways to target the disease at its earliest stages, so that innovative treatments might be developed to significantly delay disease progression even in patients who do not respond to current medical and surgical treatments that only lower pressure in the eye.

We will not only evaluate the eye for disease, but also measure a large number of molecules in the urine that may be used as a foundation for future medical tests for AMD.

Dysfunctional cilia are now known to be implicated in not only PKD but a wide range of diseases affecting the eyes, ears, heart, and other organs.

However, they say the work at least proves the potential for mRNA therapy to successfully treat not only hemophilia B but also other human disorders, such as hemophilia A (caused by faulty clotting factor VIII) or a variety of diseases of the liver, central nervous system, lung and eyes.

«The results of the DREAM study do not support use of omega - 3 supplements for patients with moderate to severe dry eye disease, «Dr. Asbell concluded.

Check with your doctor to rule out an infection or an autoimmune disease, but do nt worry — chances are the doctor will prescribe eye drops (such as Restasis) or advise you to use some preservative - free artificial tears (such as Systane Lubricant Eye Drops, available at drugstores) as needed.

All the things that go wrong in the eyes — unless you suddenly wake up and can't see — these little niggling diseases that people don't pick up on, they're slow diseases.

Treat the bite with rubbing alcohol, and keep an eye on it for several weeks to make sure you don't develop a bulls - eye rash, which could indicate Lyme disease.

By focusing on prevention, it may be possible to avoid the numerous complications of diabetes and obesity, which include not only eye, kidney and nerve problems but also dental disease, dementia and depression, Sood said.

People in the DCCT who kept their glucose levels as close to normal as possible were 50 % less likely to develop retinopathy, an eye disease that can cause blindness, than their counterparts who did not.