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Obesity and vision risks

Obesity is a serious public health problem worldwide, a veritable silent pandemic, which has innumerable correlations with numerous eye diseases, as it is......

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Geographic atrophy is one of the advanced progressive stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and leads to a gradual loss of central vision. Patients receiving this dramatic diagnosis......

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Cataracts in Italy

Our population is getting older and older, and cataracts are naturally becoming one of the most frequently encountered diseases in everyday eye care practice. It is estimated that around......

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The use of hyaluronic acid fillers to perform cosmetic procedures in the periocular area is now a widespread and sought-after procedure, since it is considered an intervention......

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Acanthamoeba keratitis and medical therapy

We republish the interview with Dr Nino Asero that accompanied the birth of the project that led to the new drug for the medical treatment of Acanthamoeba keratitis

Dr Asero could you summarise the characteristics of this type of keratitis? Acanthamoeba keratitis (AC) is a rare, severe and seriously debilitating corneal infection caused by Acanthamoeba spp., a protozoan.

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Oestrogen and glaucoma

The menopause is an important risk factor for the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and, therefore, the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between......

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Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a true silent pandemic: consider that globally, in the last two decades alone, the number of people suffering from it has risen from 150......

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The eye is a kind of window to look inside us. From the retinal images of the eyes, thanks to the artificial intelligence of the RetFound system, eye diseases can be diagnosed (retinopathy......

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