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Alzheimer's drug works on glaucoma

Submitted by TestUser on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 4:03pm

A medicine designed for treating Alzheimer's patients has been found to work for treating glaucoma, according to a research group at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

The finding may lead to preventing the loss of eyesight due to glaucoma. The report was to be carried in the online edition of U.S. magazine The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Friday.

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Evasive vs Invasive

Submitted by Dr. Edward Kondrot on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 5:32pm

A group of glaucoma patients recently had an online discussion about my book Microcurrent Stimulation: Miracle Eye Cure. I was contacted by several readers of that discussion and informed that one of the skeptics posted the following reply about my website:

"I did a little digging and came across Kondrot's site. It's yet more of the usual totally unsupported, unproven New Age silliness of course, but the best bit by far is this:

Cataract surgery should be a last resort after trying other non-evasive treatments.

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Submitted by dave on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 8:30pm

Welcome. FitEyes.com features patient to patient discussions about the lastest glaucoma and intraocular pressure (eye pressure) news. All registered users can add posts to this blog. (And if you are a new user of FitEyes.com, you should know that you automatically have your own personal blog here also.)

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An Update On My Eye Pressure

Submitted by dave on Sat, 06/02/2007 - 10:59pm

Share A Smile!Is it possible for a glaucoma patient to dramatically reduce their eye pressure without using additional glaucoma drugs or surgery?

Six months ago, on 5-Nov-2006 I recorded the following intraocular pressure measurements.

My glaucoma medication was Xalatan in each eye and 0.5% timolol maleate in my right eye. 

Glaucoma Cure

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 11:41am

...This discussion has me wondering about all the oils that might be helpful. The one that seems most interesting to me is ghee -- because it has a history of being used for eye care that is thousands of years old. In Ayurveda they use warm ghee to bathe the eyes in a procedure called netra basti that is part of the seasonal cleansing and purification routine called pancha karma...

Have Any Foods, Herbs Or Supplements Been Proven To Help Vision?

Submitted by dave on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 6:50pm

 

Science moves slowly and proof of any sort is hard to come by. However, we have strong evidence that lots of herbs and "super food"-type supplements can be very beneficial for patients with glaucoma. How long do you want to wait for the "official" proclamation that these supplements are beneficial? 

New Research on Acupuncture and Eye Pressure Presented at ARVO

Submitted by dave on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 9:13pm

 New research presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting last week revealed that acupuncture can dramatically reduce eye pressure (intraocular pressure). The study, titled Electro-acupuncture to decrease intraocular pressure in Rhesus monkeys with chronic glaucoma, was performed by scientists at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Cantwell was the lead researcher and she was at ARVO to present the results.

 

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology 2007 Annual Meeting

Submitted by dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 1:05pm

 I will be attending the ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) 2007 Annual Meeting. You may not see much activity on my blogs until after May 11th, but I'm sure I'll have a lot of interesting news to report after the conference. My schedule for the week is packed full of sessions on the latest research in glaucoma and related topics.

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