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Glaucoma: the frontiers of research

Glaucoma research, investigating the causes of its occurrence and possible treatments, is taking us a giant step closer to increasingly 'patient-friendly' therapies and,......

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Coffee & eyes

Who would have thought that drinking a coffee a day can be good for our eyes as well as our mood! Caffeine, a substance belonging to the methylxanthine class,......

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Keratoconus: the best approach

Keratoconus is today, thanks to advances in diagnostics and therapy, an increasingly treatable condition, with excellent results in terms of visual acuity preservation, provided that the diagnosis......

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Retinopathy: Beware of hair dye!

Dyeing one's hair, because it is turning white or simply because it pleases us to see ourselves in a different look, is a human behaviour that dates back to the mists of time and that......

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Monkey pox

In mid-August 2024, when many of us were on holiday and sightseeing, the World Health Organisation declared monkey pox or 'monkey pox' (mpox),......

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SOS: bee sting on the eyeball!

A clinical case that could have had dramatic outcomes, brought about by an unusual bee sting on the eyeball.

A case report was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine describing an unusual case of a bee sting to the eyeball......

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Risk of NAION and Semaglutide

Semaglutide, approved by the FDA in 2017 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and in 2022 for the treatment of obesity, has been in the news for some time now......

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A large cohort study reports on the long-term consequences of COVID-19 infection in the population of children under 18 and in the hyper-fragile group of neuro-disabled patients

Paediatric patients hospitalised for COVID-19, the infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or for multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) often present severe neurological manifestations, which are significantly associated at the time of discharge......

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