Researchers analysing data from the UK Biobank have reported that poorer visual acuity was associated with depressive symptoms, measured by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) scores… Read More »Research from the UK Biobank Study reports data associating visual health, depression and altered brain neurobiology
Researchers at the Institute of Applied Ophthalmobiology (IOBA), University of Valladolid, Spain, has reported results on the use of hair cortisol concentrations (HCC), measuring chronic… Read More »EURETINA Hamburg 2022: Spanish researchers report that hair cortisol level may be used as a molecular biomarker in retinitis pigmentosa patients
Researchers at the Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image (AIBILI), Coimbra, and the University of Coimbra, Portugal, has reported phenotypic differences… Read More »Clinical researchers on rare variants of the CFH gene has reported significant burden of disease among AMD patients
Researchers in the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research (DRCR) Retina Network has reported that the treatment of moderate vision loss due to diabetic macular edema found… Read More »Aflibercept monotherapy or “bevacizumab first” for diabetic macular edema assessed the evidence on visual outcomes and costs to the healthcare system.
Researchers based at the NEI’s Ophthalmic Genomics Laboratory, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, have reported anomalous TIMP3 variants with altering signal peptide function, distinct from classic Sorsby… Read More »Atypical TIMP3 defects may present a distinct disease mechanism of Sorsby Fundus Dystrophy.
A research team based at the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, have shown that the relative telomere length (RTL) is associated… Read More »Relative telomere length (RTL) appears to be associated with age-related macular degeneration in women but not in men.
A research team based at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, and the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, has… Read More »Early signs of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may assist to treat patients before symptoms arise thereby interrupt the pathogenesis.
A research team based at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, has published long-term visual outcomes for patients participating with an… Read More »A real-world study on an AI-enabled tele-monitoring project shows significant impact on long-term outcomes.
A research team based at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, the University of Groningen and University Eye Clinic, Maastricht, has reported that idebenone (known as Raxone),… Read More »A national cohort study in the Netherlands have reported clinical outcomes of treatment with idebenone in Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON)
An Italian consortium of clinical researches from fourteen institutes has reported a longitudinal natural history of RPE65-assocaited retinopathies. The report, led Dr. Francesco Testa at… Read More »A longitudinal natural history of RPE65-associated retinopathies in Italy showed specific genotype-phenotype characteristics