Children up to 11 years old who are candidates for routine, uncomplicated surgery for childhood cataract are eligible, subject to certain exclusion criteria.

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The special lenses were originally developed by British optician and researcher David Harris to help people with color blindness. However, he found that by altering the wavelength of light that reaches the eye, the tinted lenses reduced the visual distortions that make reading difficult for people with dyslexia.

Despite skeptics, parents who bought the ChromaGen Vision lenses for children who were diagnosed with dyslexia are reporting startling improvements in their children’s reading capabilities.

Available as either prescription eyeglasses that look like sunglasses or contact lenses, the ChromaGen Vision glasses typically cost between run $700 to $1,000, while the tinted contact lenses cost about 50% less.

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But a new study conducted in an eye clinic in India found that lazy eye can be corrected in older children, between ages 10 to 18, if they stick to a regimen that includes playing video games with their weaker eye along with standard amblyopia treatment.

At the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, lead researcher Dr. Somen Ghosh reported on a novel approach that allowed about a third of his study participants between ages 10 and 18 years old to make substantial vision gains, with the most significant gains seen in children who participated in the treatment group that completed daily video game practice.

Briefly, students in all treatment groups followed a basic treatment plan that required them to wear eyeglasses that blocked the stronger eye for at least two hours a day, during which time they practiced exercises using the weaker eye. The group with the most significant gains played at least one hour of video games daily using only the weaker eye.

One 16 year old with serious amblyopia that had impacted his school work and who had been told it was too late to correct his vision, after completing Dr. Ghosh’s regimen reported that his vision had improved to the point where he no longer had trouble studying or taking exams, and could once again play tennis.

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Dr. Bowes Hamill performed a corneal transplant on Georgia Kate when she was 9 days old, and now she can see.

Doctors discussing the case stressed that in such circumstances, it is critical to perform the transplant surgery as early as possible – before the baby’s eyes and brain start forming neural connections.

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While there’s no cure for infantile nystagmus, a surgical procedure designed to slow the “dancing” eye has shown promising results. On average, patients have experienced a 20 percent improvement in their central vision and about a 50 percent improvement in their peripheral vision. Until this procedure was developed in 1999, medical treatments for reducing abnormal eye movement had limited success.

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Researchers also studied the developmental pathways of these cancerous cells. Surprisingly, unlike in other cancers, they found very few genetic changes distinguishing the malignant cells from normal cells.

These findings have therapeutic value insofar as chemotherapy agents are increasingly designed against particular molecular pathways active in cancer cells.

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