Most talked about is the risk of cardiovascular disease, which includes an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and peripheral vascular disease, as well as kidney disease and diabetic eye disease.
According to the FDA, Mycobacteria chelonae can also cause lung disease, eye problems, and infections of the joints and organs.
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They added that the programme could help the NHS to save money by reducing the cost of treating patients who develop kidney disease and eye problems.
This drug is approved for macular degeneration and is in testing for diabetic eye disease.
This examination included dilation of the eye and examination of the retina for diabetic eye disease.
It has had only one drug approved, in 1999, for a rare eye disease.
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
Two genes predict one's risk of getting the devastating eye disease macular degeneration--and your chances of going blind once you have it.
Isis (nasdaq: ISIS - news - people ) has one antisense drug on the market, a treatment for a rare eye disease.
Selma has a congenital eye disease, and she is saving up to pay for an operation for her young son, who will otherwise follow her into blindness.
Possible features include a binocular heads up display, corrective lenses, a hearing aid app, color blindness correction, even an app to aid those with macular eye disease.
In the next two years Novartis will unleash a flood of new drugs for an array of other deadly or debilitating illnesses asthma, diabetes, schizophrenia, organ failure, arthritis, skin disorders and eye disease.
This morning Robyn Karnauskas, the biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank argues that strong sales performance by Lucentis in Europe (where the drug is sold by Novartis, which reported earnings this morning) bode well for Eylea in an eye disease call diabetic macular edema.
In an added bonus, a smaller version of the molecule could be effective in an age-related eye disease. (A drug from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ) will reach the market first.) FDA approval of Avastin is expected by late March, but could come sooner.
Many eye-vitamin formulations currently on the market are based on research conducted by the National Institutes of Health in a project called Age-Related Eye Disease Study, or AREDS. The first phase of the clinical trial, completed in 2001, found that a specific combination of vitamins C and E, along with beta-carotene and zinc, reduced the risk of age-related macular degeneration by as much as 25%.
This is an age-related disease that damages the part of the eye that perceives fine detail, according to the National Eye Institute.
"People with lung disease, particularly asthmatics should keep an eye on ozone forecasts on Ceefax and in the papers so they can double their inhalers if the levels are likely to be high, " he said.
Diabetes is one disease that can cause major changes in the eye.
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The disease can cause permanent vision loss unless the patient gets an intensive eye surgery.
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Every diabetic needs ongoing visits to a physician to handle general diabetes treatment, a podiatrist for foot care, an ophthalmologist for eye exams and a dentist to monitor for gum and tooth disease.
As well as fighting off cancer and heart disease, vitamin A has also been linked to preventing macular degeneration, and eye condition that can lead to blindness.
The patients most likely to benefit from these devices are those with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare disease that damages and kills the cells in the retina a tissue layer at the back of the eye that process light.
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