Archive for the 'Eye' Category

Blood pressure drug helpful in diabetic retinopathy

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Candesartan is known as a drug to lower blood pressure down. Researchers feel the same drug can be used to protect diabetes retinopathy.Studies by the researchers in the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London, confirmed it.

High blood pressure can lead to retinopathy in type 1 diabetes patients

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The recent studies by the researchers in the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales in Australia find that type 1 diabetes coupled with blood pressure can add the risk of retinopathy in adolescents. They also indicates other factors like age, duration of diabetes, HbA1c, [...]

FA Device Could be Used to Detect Diabetes Before Its Diagnosis

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

According to the scientists of the University of Michigan, they have created a new instrument called as FA device which is capable of detecting the metabolic stress and tissue damage that occurs long before the first symptoms of the diabetes.

US Researchers Found Rosiglitazone To Prevent Diabetic Retinopathy

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

A team of researchers at the Jules Stein Eye Institute and other of their counterparts in the USA, have found that the rosiglitazone (Avandia) treated diabetes patients are less likely to develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The researchers have tested the records of nearly 124 patients treated with rosiglitazone and compared them with records of 158 [...]

Pipex Pharmaceuticals To Acquire Exclusive Worldwid License To Use Oral Flupirtine for Diabetes, Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinities Pigmentosa & Glaucoma Treatment

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

The Pharmaceutical company Pipex Pharmaceutical has announced its plan to acquire worldwide license to the issued and pending patent applications related to additional uses of oral flupirtine for the treatment of a range of ophthalmic, diabetes and diabetes-related therapeutic indications.

Retinopathy, Prevalent In Pre-Diabetics & Diabetics, An Early Indicator of Diabetes?

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group has conducted a research on the prevalence of retinopathy in impaired glucose tolerance and recent-onset diabetes. Retinopathy is closely related to diabetes. The study has found that problem of retinopathy is present in persons with elevated fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance and no known history of diabetes. The prevalence [...]

Diabetes Increases Glaucoma Risk

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

A report published at the The journal Ophthalmology, shows that Primary open-angle glaucoma, most common form of glaucoma, is more likely to be developed among the diabetic women. The study supports the notion that type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of glaucoma. The study was conducted by researchers at the [...]

Diabetes In Pregnancy Can Be Fatal For The New Born

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Researchers at the Kaiser Permanent, Southern California, found diabetes, if not controlled during pregnancy, can bring problems like still birth, miscarriage and child defects. The study published at the Diabetes Care, shows the number of pregnant women with uncontrolled diabetes are increasing at a large number between year 1999 and 2005. The number is [...]

‘Superdrug’ to Combat Killers Like Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer….

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Australian Researchers at the University of NSW have developed an experimental super drug which could be used to combat a range of illnesses from diabetes to heart disease and cancer.

Pirfenidone to Treat Kidney Disease in Diabetics

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Research is undergoing to determine whether the experimental drug pirfenidone can slow kidney disease in diabetics. The study is recruiting patients. Pirfenidone has been beneficial in other diseases involving scar formation, such as pulmonary fibrosis and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. The drug may be able to slow scar formation in diabetic kidney disease as well, possibly [...]