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January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month, an important time to spread the word about this sight-stealing disease.

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month, an important time to spread the word about this sight-stealing disease.

Changes in blood vessels in the eye might be an early warning sign of glaucoma, researchers reported.

New research from Japan suggests that blinking does more than stop our eyes drying out: it is an active process that causes the brain to go off-line, into a more reflective mode, before giving renewed attention. Tamami Nakano of Osaka University and colleagues write about their findings in the 24 December online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, PNAS...

Two recent experimental treatments - one involving skin-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell grafts, the other gene therapy - have been shown to produce long-term improvement in visual function in mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), according to the Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) scientists who led the studies...