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FAU lands $1.9 million NIH grant for novel way to treat degenerative disease

Florida Atlantic University researchers Lisa A. Brennan and Marc Kantorow will determine the novel mechanisms that convert immature eye lens precursor cells into functional transparent cells.
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Treatment pause leads to high rate of relapse in children with a type of autoimmune eye inflammation

According to a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical study, children with a type of autoimmune arthritis and associated eye inflammation are likely to experience disease recurrence when discontinuing a biologic therapy called adalimumab.
A myopic eye grows too long from front to back. Light gets focused in front of the retina. Single-vision contact lenses focus distance vision on the retina, but peripheral light is focused behind the retina. Multifocal contact lenses focus distance vision on the retina and peripheral light in front of the retina, signaling the eye to slow growth.Multifocal contact lenses are concentric circles consisting of an add power treatment zone in the outer rings that focuses peripheral rays in front of the retina.

Contact lenses used to slow nearsightedness in youth have a lasting effect

In a follow up study, researchers found that children who wore special contact lenses to slow progression of myopia maintained the treatment benefit even after they stopped wearing the contacts as older teens.

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Last updated: January 10, 2025