Not exact matches
Seriously, look
into the
eyes of a suffering victim of any of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful
diseases that your «loving» god has purportedly created.
Some are good; like looking
into the
eyes of your lover or feeling blessed by God and then there are others like getting hit by a car or contracting a
disease giving you only several weeks to live that are bad.
Look
into the
eyes of a suffering victim of any of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful
diseases that your «loving» god has purportedly created, or those of a starving innocent child in Africa.
Among the disorders that Balasubramanian has targeted is retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited
diseases that cause degeneration of the retina (in the back of the
eye where millions of photoreceptors capture light rays that the brain turns
into images).
«It's fantastic news that they are going
into the clinic with a cell therapy for
eye disease,» says Pete Coffey of University College London, and head of a team developing tiny «patches» of RPEs for treating age - related macular degeneration.
A single injection of DNA
into the
eyes of four children born with a blindness - causing
disease has given them enough vision to walk without help.
The findings, reported today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may provide insight
into the excessive light sensitivity sometimes experienced by people with
eye disease, migraine headaches and concussions.
«New insight
into eye diseases.»
Unfortunately, an efficient treatment involving injections
into the
eye only exists for the wet form of the
disease.
In 2014, a Japanese woman in her 70s with age - related macular degeneration — a common
eye condition that can lead to blindness — had a tiny sheet of retinal pigment tissue made from her own skin cells implanted
into one
eye, which reportedly stopped the
disease's progression.
Back when stem cells were first extracted from human embryos 20 years ago, scientists were fascinated at their ability to change
into any type of cell in the body and thought they would soon be used to treat all types of
diseases, from
eye disorders to diabetes.
«If you're working on a genetic
disease of the
eye, you might do a direct injection
into the
eye.»
Well, one specific event that my lab has contributed to the «Catalyst for a Cure» is we've developed high - resolution imaging methods that we can look
into the
eye and take very high - resolution photographs of layers in the retina that are affected early in
disease.
In the past, neural stem and progenitor cells from various sources were introduced
into eyes with the thought that they might differentiate and replace photoreceptors lost in retinal
disease [13]--[19].
Among the newly funded investigations are: the development of animal models of diabetic
eye disease to learn how fenofibrate, a drug clinically - approved to treat cholesterol, protects the
eye from diabetes - related damage; the development of a specialized camera to capture how the retina's rods and cones (responsible for turning light energy
into shapes and colors) work in health and how they fail in retinal
diseases; and the exploration of mechanisms by which intestinal tract bacteria impact the health of the
eye.
However, when a patient has both cataracts and AMD, both of those
diseases can reduce vision, and removing the cataracts may improve vision in someone who has AMD by letting more light
into the
eye.
A new five - year grant from the National
Eye Institute totaling $ 2,187,500 to Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Associate Research Scientist Krish Kizhatil, Ph.D., will support research
into mechanisms of glaucoma, an
eye disease expected to affect 80 million people by the end of the decade.
Lyme
disease, transmitted through the bite of an infected tick, often starts with the classic «bulls -
eye» rash and then can progress
into multiple symptoms, including brain fog.
The book provides a deep dive
into the relationship between mitochondrial health and cardiovascular
diseases; cardiometabolic syndrome; neurodegenerative
diseases; arthritis; cancer; and the aging effects on the skin,
eyes, and muscles.
These
eye nutrients filter harsh, high - energy blue wavelengths of light, helping protect and maintain healthy
eye cells, which is translated
into a reduced risk of chronic
eye diseases, such as macular degeneration and cataracts.
Over a speedy narrative arbitrarily marked by the passing months, Kelly sharpens his two main performances
into actual human beings: Plemons evolves from frustrated
eye - rolling and seething to articulated anger, while SNL's Shannon, always brassy as a storyteller, has a major scene when her voice has been stolen by the
disease and she must pass the baton.
Research includes investigations
into novel treatments for inflammatory
diseases of the
eye, drug delivery to the
eye, advanced imaging techniques, and surgical techniques for glaucoma.
Glaucoma can also be caused by another
eye disease like a tumor growing in the
eye, internal
eye inflammation (uveitis), blood in the
eye (hyphema), or a lens being misplaced
into the front portion of the
eye (anterior lens luxation).
The rescued pets are suffering from flea infestations,
eye discharge, ear infections, hair loss, dental
disease,
eye trauma, overgrown toenails (one so long it had painfully pierced and was growing
into the pad of the foot), and overall lack of care.
The veterinary ophthalmologist views the widely magnified
diseased eye of his patient staring
into binoculars.
'' Because
eye disease can progress rapidly,» said Leticia Materi, PhD, DVM, of the Calgary Avian & Exotic Pet Clinic of Alberta, Canada, «an owner should bring their rabbit
into the veterinary clinic within 24 hours of noticing the signs.»
There will be jaw deformities, which can lead to dental
disease and potential problems with eating and drinking; there are usually small nostrils and a soft palate which is too long, which can lead to severe breathing problems; the tear ducts can not follow their natural path and drain properly
into the nose, so the
eyes run constantly and cause tear - staining on the face and sometimes secondary sores.
This refers to a certain dog
eye disease that affects and destroys the retina cells in both
eyes resulting
into blindness.
The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the
eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk
disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than
into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.
Women, girls, toxic stress, the female brain and immune system, autoimmune
disease and chronic physical and mental illness — if you care about any of these, keep an
eye out for my upcoming three - part blog series in which I delve
into the scientific links between them all.