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A NEW guideline intended to help save sight has led to York Hospital a s eye clinic being a oeswampeda by an extra 1,000 patients.
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Thursday, 1 October 2009, 1:15 pm Press Release: PHARMAC 1 October 2009 Media release New medicines, savings result from agreement New funded treatments for HIV/AIDS and nausea, and a strengthened osteoporosis treatment have emerged from an agreement between PHARMAC and pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp Dohme .
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Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital has been providing state-of-the-art laser eye treatment to glaucoma patients for the past two years.
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Three medical organizations have called for a state investigation of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System's optometry department after 23 glaucoma patients experienced significant vision loss while receiving treatment there.
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Three medical groups are asking California to investigate the cases of eight veterans who they say suffered preventable vision loss at a Veterans Administration hospital.
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The popularity of different approaches has shifted in recent years-as has the popularity of glaucoma surgery in general.
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Gene variants on chromosome 2 are associated with glaucoma in blacks, say researchers who studied 129 patients with the vision-robbing disease.
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The drops are the first of their kind that avoid unpleasant side effects which deter up to a third of patients from continuing their treatment.
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