hello friends, this mail is very important, please go through. regards m.chandru ----- Original Message ----- From: "Parker at Vip conduit" <[email protected]> To: "Accessible Devices" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 6:21 PM Subject: Accessible Devices New Medical Research E Mail List
> Due to the fact that we have a medical research section on Accessible Devices > we > receive a number of articles related to research being done on vision. Some > of it > is quite encouraging and in order to make sure that as many people as > possible see > it, we're adding a special Medical e mail list. It will be an announce only > list > and the volume should be quite low. We'll post only articles related to > vision and > Diabetes research and developments. The article below is an example of what > you > would receive. if you'd like to be part of this list just copy the address > below > and paste it in the to line of a blank message and send it. Or if the link > will work > with your security settings you can just click on it and send the blank > message that > will pop up. > [email protected] > mailto:[email protected] > Just follow the instructions you'll receive to complete the subscription. > The contact lens that can help the blind see again > By Fiona Macrae > Last updated at 9:20 AM on 28th May 2009 > The groundbreaking operation brought significant improvements in vision > within a matter of weeks. > The procedure uses a person's own cells to heal damage to the cornea - the > transparent outermost layer of the eye. > It is carried out under local anaesthetic, with patients returning home > within two hours of surgery, removing the need for expensive hospital stays. > The three patients treated so far had very poor vision caused by corneal > disease - the fourth most common form of blindness, affecting around > 10million worldwide. > How it works: The treatment can restore eye sight using steam cells > It is caused by genetics, surgery, burns, infection or chemotherapy, and > treatments usually include grafts and transplants and drugs such as > steroids. > The team from the University of New South Wales in Sydney harnessed the > power of stem cells - 'master cells' with the ability to turn into other > cell types. > They removed small samples of stem cells from the eyes of two men and a > woman with corneal disease and grew them on a contact lens. > The stem cell-coated contacted lenses were then put into the patients' eyes > for around three weeks. > During that time, the stem cells moved off the lenses and began to heal the > damaged corneas, the journal Transplantation reports. > Using a person's own cells removes any need for donors and means the > transplant will not be rejected. > Researcher Dr Nick Di Girolamo said: 'The procedure is totally simple and > cheap. > 'Unlike other techniques, it requires no foreign human or animal products, > only the patient's own serum, and is completely non-invasive. > 'There's no suturing, there is no major operation. You don't need any fancy > equipment.' > The contact lenses used in the operation are already widely used after eye > surgery. > The researchers hope the technique can be adapted for other parts of the > eye, such as the retina, and even elsewhere in the body. > Damage to retinal blood vessels is behind a range of conditions that can > lead to loss of sight including many cases of age-related macular > degeneration, or AMD, the most common cause of blindness in the elderly. > Dr Di Girolamo said: 'If we can do this procedure in the eye, I don't see > why it wouldn't work in other major organs such as the skin, which behaves > in a very similar way to the cornea.' > Dr Kuldip Sidhu, a stem cell expert at the same university, said the 'clever > strategy' was a step towards using stem cells to treat debilitating human > diseases. > Professor Loane Skene, of the University of Melbourne, said: 'Provided that > patients are told that the new procedure is experimental and possible risks > are not yet known, and they then consent to have it, this use of a patient's > stem cells is no more ethically contentious than a skin transplant.' > In Britain, Sonal Rughani, of the RNIB, said: 'This small-scale study > reveals promising outcomes with the use of contact lenses. We await further > developments of this innovative nature.' > The work is one of several studies being carried out around the world which > aim to use stem cells to cure blindness. > This complete article is located at: > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1188967/The-contact-lens-make-blind-again.html > www.vipconduit.com > and > www.accessible-devices.com > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.accessible-devices.com/pipermail/a-d_accessible-devices.com/attachments/20090619/90c65f35/attachment.html> > This is an Announce only list. Subscribers are not able to post to this list. > To unsubscribe from the Accessible Devices list copy the line below. 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