Eye injections are the only medication currently available to treat diabetes-related retinopathy. Modern eye injections are not painful and don’t cause many side effects. Diabetic retinopathy affects ...
November is Diabetes-related Eye Disease Awareness Month, and early detection and treatment of diabetes are key to reduce the risk for significant vision loss and blindness, according to Prevent ...
Albert has lived with diabetes for around 30 years. Like the 1.4 million Americans diagnosed with diabetes each year, life continued on after his diagnosis. He works as a director of facilities and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Eye clinics that screen diabetics who don't make it into a specialist's office may help identify eye problems early on, new study findings report. A review of recent ...
Dear Doctor K: I was recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. My doctor says I need to have lots of other doctor appointments as a result, including seeing the eye doctor. Can you explain how diabetes ...
Diabetes is one of the most pressing health concerns of our time, and now Swedish scientists have demonstrated a new potential way to manage the disease. It turns out the eye might be a useful place ...
Investigators have provided new understanding of how diabetes delays wound healing in the eye, identifying for the first time two related disease-associated changes to the cornea. Investigators from ...
Researchers have identified a novel inhibitor drug that, when given to mice, prevented both eye and kidney complications commonly seen in diabetics. With the potential for one medication to treat two ...