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WANTED: Volunteers to test an on-line glaucoma screening software

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I am looking to recruit a group of volunteers to test a perimetry screening software that has been developed very recently by Peristat Group LLC, a California start-up company. The program with instructions is posted at www.keepyoursight.com. It allows users to complete a visual field examination on-line and to receive a [...]

DR.COHN –about dry eyes

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My Opthamalogist just gave me samples of Restasis for dry eyes and his nurse seems to think this med can actually CURE dry eyes or sjogrens –? I would like to hear what you think of this med . I have a real problem with this and I am really eager to [...]

Science about canola oil

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – the enig article is bunk, as others in this thread have noted. Um, I missed that debunking. The Enig articles (actually two were cited) are the generally accepted science now. It’s one thing to merely disagree, another to offer [...]

OCT ? any commentts

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Not sure if I managed to post this correctly. Sorry if it is a repeat. I’m a suspect for 6 months. Glaucoma Specialist @ major medical center says my C/D ratio is .7-.8 rt and .7 lt. OCT3 done recently: c/d  OD .403; .727 horiz, .582 vert c/d os: .458; [...]

xalatan vs travatan

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My specialist switched me from travatan to Lumigan and the 1st day of using it my eye was swollen and bright red and hurt like heck.  I went to her immediately and she took me off it immediately…said I had a reaction to it.   Now the travatan never did that to [...]

Rhinocort Dosing – On and Off?

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On Sun, 09 May 2004 07:00:49 GMT, "Oliver" <oliver557…@yahoo.com> wrote: >If elected, I will change the US driving age to 21 and the drinking age to >16.  They are going to drink anyway, at least now they won’t kill anyone.  I >would also enact legislation to sell Nasal Steroids over the [...]

Timoptic

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Yes. Timolol is the active drug. Timoptic is one of its brand name. Looker ( a glaucoma sufferer) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Don <rver…@mindspring.com> wrote in message <news:409727CB.38C9@mindspring.com>… > Is timoptic and timolol the same drug? > Don

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Is timoptic and timolol the same drug? [...]

Vivid dreams

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"Patricia Rogers" <cho…@revealed.net> wrote in news:c57k8a01jj9@enews4.newsguy.com: > Hi – Came to this group hoping it could help me.  My father has > glaucoma, know he is using Xalatan but he is also using another med > I can’t remember. Anyway, since he started on the meds he has such > [...]

Pilocarpine 4% and 2%

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -"D.I.Stiller" <d_i_stil…@yahoo.com> wrote in message <news:c53nat$2nttev$1@ID-79865.news.uni-berlin.de>… > "D.I.Stiller" <d_i_stil…@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:c3loup$28s8eh$1@ID-79865.news.uni-berlin.de… > > "Rick Cohn, M.D." <eyegu…@aol.com> wrote in message news:54e8377c.0403211917.4a8a8ae4@posting.google.com… > > > "D.I.Stiller" <d_i_stil…@yahoo.com> wrote in message <news:c3ka0o$28nkv9$1@ID-79865.news.uni-berlin.de>… > > > > A patient takes Trusopt, Tiloptic, Alphagan and [...]

Is it in the family

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Hi, My mother had bad eyesight but I never new what was exactly wrong. I have been diagnosed with Glaucoma is it heredity?

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In article <405c8efe$…@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>,  "Bryan Llewellyn" <b.llewel…@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > My mother had bad eyesight but I never new what was exactly wrong. I have > been diagnosed with [...]