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Anti-HIV Treatment Improves Immune System and Fights Sight-Threatening Eye Infection

A combination of anti-HIV drugs appears to help rejuvenate the immune systems of people with AIDS and prevent progression of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a potentially blinding AIDS-related eye complication.
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Address by Carl Kupfer, MD, Vision '99 International Conference on Low Vision

Dr. Kupfer served as director of the National Eye Institute from January 1970 through July 2000

Recruitment Begins for Study on Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Patient recruitment has begun on a clinical trial to find out if laser treatment decreases vision loss for people who may be at risk for severe age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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New Eye Disease Treatment May Improve Patients' Quality of Life

In a small preliminary study, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a possible new treatment for uveitis, a potentially blinding eye disease.
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Defective Mouse Gene Linked to Childhood Blindness

For centuries, children have been reciting the Mother Goose nursery rhyme, “Three Blind Mice.” Now, researchers studying a new strain of blind mice may know what caused their blindness and, more importantly, how this knowledge might someday prevent some..
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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 Medicine
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Blacks, Whites Benefit from Different Surgical Glaucoma Treatments

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health have discovered that black and white patients with advanced glaucoma respond differently to two surgical treatments for the disease. A paper detailing these findings is published in the July 1998
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Radiation Treatment for Eye Cancer Does Not Change Patients' Five-Year Survival

Researchers found that patients with large eye melanomas had similar five-year survival rates regardless of whether they were treated with radiation prior to removal of the eye or had their eye removed without prior radiation therapy.
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Light Reduction Does Not Affect Blinding Eye Disease in Premature Infants

Researchers supported by the National Eye Institute have determined that light reduction has no effect on the development of a potentially blinding eye disorder in low birthweight infants
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New Treatment for Eye Disease Reduces Need for Strong Drugs

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a substance that allows people with uveitis, a potentially blinding eye disease, to stop or reduce the need for powerful drugs.

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