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Beyond being the main organs for visual processing and sight, the eyes can serve as windows to overall health and wellness. For instance, 3D eye scans are commonly used to track the early signs and progression of kidney disease. Specifically, retinal changes have been observed among patients with different stages of kidney disease, thus offering …
Vision impairment and disability can be debilitating in a person’s daily life. From slight discomfort and inconvenience to chronic and severe pain, eye problems should be addressed as early as possible to prevent them from worsening. The CDC’s fast facts on common eye disorders point to approximately 12 million US adults having vision impairment, including …
Are your eyes giving you signs of strain; do you find yourself squinting often? If you are spending too much time staring at your smartphone, tablet, computer, or TV screen, you aren’t doing your eyes any favors, to be honest, you’re most likely to be seriously damaging them. When you spend too much time doing …
A randomized and controlled human study (NCT05064865) published in the journal Food & Function from the National University of Singapore found that consuming grapes for sixteen weeks helped to improve key markers of eye health (1), improving macular pigment accumulations and downregulating harmful biomarkers. This study has implications for an aging population that is at …
Nutrition is an important part of any top athlete’s training program. And now, a new study by researchers from the University of Georgia proposes that supplementing the diet of athletes with colorful fruits and vegetables could improve their visual range. The paper, which was published in Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, examines how a group …
Buck Institute professor Pankaj Kapahi thinks the eye is a window to aging. His lab, in collaboration with Google Research and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, has shown how imaging of the fundus, the blood vessel-rich tissue in the retina, can be used to track human aging, in a way that is noninvasive, less expensive …
NIH Highlights At A Glance: Replacing a component of a dietary supplement for treating age-related macular degeneration improved its safety and efficacy over a 10-year period. The results demonstrate the merits of the supplement formulation, called AREDS2. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative disease of the eye that is the most common cause of …
There are many causes of failing eyesight, common eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can result in blindness, a new study published in the journal BMJ Open Ophthalmology conducted by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York suggests that it may also be a warning sign of …
According to a news release, a surgical team successfully implanted a patch of tissue made from patient cells with the goal of treating advanced “dry” age-related macular degeneration (AMD), also known as geographic atrophy, at the National Institutes of Health. Dry AMD is a leading cause of vision loss among older Americans and currently has …
Loss of the protein pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), which protects retinal support cells, may drive age-related changes in the retina, according to a new study in mice from the National Eye Institute (NEI). The retina is the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye, and aging-associated diseases of the retina, like age-related macular degeneration …