Do you know 20.8 million children and adults in the United States are diabetic? This adds up to 7 percent of the population. To add to the crisis, of them an estimated 14.6 million have been diagnosed, but unfortunately, 6.2 million people,...

It is common an experience among diabetics - i.e. treating their eye ailment using the painful conventional laser approaches. But, here is a new technology aiming to make treatment for the disease — diabetic retinopathy — less painful...

When the blood sugar levels fluctuate and Type 2 diabetes affects blood eye’s retina, it may lead to diabetic retinopathy. The diabetic retinopathy causes in the development of weak vessels in the eye. It may cause blood leakage sometimes,...

Ruboxistaurin mesylate, a new diabetes drug, may decrease persistent vision loss in diabetics. The drug helps diabetes patients with severe preproliferative diabetic retinopathy to reduce the vision loss by forty-one per cent. In the 66th...

Are you suffering from blindness? Then have a check if you have diabetes. Majority of patients who suffer from blindness are diabetic! And unfortunately, these patients report to an eye doctor at an advanced stage when no treatment can be offered....