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- Green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases - 3.7
- Myopia or nearsightedness more common in Americans - 3.1
- Controlling inflammation in macular degeneration prevents progress of AMD - 2.8
- Pine bark improves visual acuity in diabetic retinopathy - 2.8
- AMD prevalence lowered in US - 2.7
- Eating fish, nuts, olive oil reduce AMD risk - 2.4

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US company starts clinical trial using stem cells to treat macular degeneration
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. ("ACT"; OTCBB:ACTC) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application to immediately initiate a Phase I/II multicenter clinical trial using retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to treat patients with Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy (SMD), one of the most common forms of juvenile macular degeneration in the world.

Green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases
Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea - renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties - do penetrate into tissues of the eye.

Myopia or nearsightedness more common in Americans
Myopia (nearsightedness) may have been more common in Americans from 1999 to 2004 than it was 30 years ago, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Pine bark improves visual acuity in diabetic retinopathy
Pycnogenol (pic-noj-en-all), an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, can improve microcirculation, retinal edema and visual acuity in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy.

Diabetes may weaken your bones
The inflammatory molecule TNF-a may contribute to delayed bone fracture healing in diabetics, revealed by researchers. Diabetes, a condition where the body either does not produce enough, or respond to, insulin, affects at least 171 million people worldwide, a figure that is likely to double by 2030.

Cataract surgery complications linked to BPH drug tamsulosin
Use of the medication tamsulosin to treat male urination difficulties within two weeks of cataract surgery is associated with an increased risk of serious postoperative ophthalmic adverse events such as retinal detachment or lost lens, according to a study in the May 20 issue of JAMA.

UCL–Pfizer to develop stem cell sight therapies
UCL has entered into a collaboration with the biopharmaceutical group Pfizer, negotiated by UCL Business, to advance development of stem cell-based therapies for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

$2 million of potentially harmful cosmetic eye product seized in US
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Marshals seized 12,682 applicator tubes of Age Intervention Eyelash, a product that may, in some users, lead to decreased vision. Authorities said the sales value of the seized tubes is approximately $2 million.

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