Infectious Eye Disease
NEI Team in Liberia Investigates Ocular Effects Among Ebola Survivors
Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that took the lives of more than 11,200 people in the region, the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has deployed a team of clinicians and technical experts to...
New Treatment Options for People With Blinding Eye Infection
A clinical trial supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) hasfound that vitrectomy, a surgical procedure to replace the gel-likefilling inside the eye, need not be performed on approximately three-fourths of patients who develop a bacterial...
Antiviral Drug Sharply Reduces Return of Herpes of the Eye
Researchers have found that an antiviral drug, often used to suppress genital herpes, also decreases the recurrence of herpes of the eye. A paper detailing these findings is published in the July 30, 1998 issue of The New England Journal of...
Antibiotic Effective Against Leading Cause of Blindness Throughout the World
A Single Dose of One Antibiotic for Treating Trichiasis is More Effective than a Six-week Regimen of Another Antibiotic
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Mechanism that allows bacteria to infect plants may inspire cure for eye disease
By borrowing a tool from bacteria that infect plants, scientists have developed a new approach to eliminate mutated DNA inside mitochondria—the energy factories within cells. Doctors might someday use the approach to treat a variety of...