The damage caused by glaucoma is commonly caused by a high intra-ocular pressure. This pressure is provided by a clear liquid, aqueous humor, which flows through the eye helps to maintain and nourish the tissue within the eye.

In circumstances where the production of this liquid is increased and the methods for drainage are decreased damage occurs to the nerves and peripheral sight is lost, this effect is called Open Angle Glaucoma (OAG).

A way to treat this form OAG is to assist in lowering the pressure within the eye, the treatment for this is usually through eye drops, laser therapy or surgery.

The most common Glaucoma therapy treatments are the eye drops, the disadvantages for using eye drops are that they can be expensive, messy and can have side effects. In addition to this depending on the severity of the OAG you may need to use them for the remainder of your life. Some of these drops assist in draining the fluid whilst others act to reduce the amount of fluid produced, the effect being the same.

Lasers also can be used for Glaucoma therapy. This technique is called laser therapy. Laser therapy uses lasers to target the cells in the eye which contain melanin which is a natural pigment. The body will then act to repair the damaged cells and as an effect of this will decrease the pressure that has built up within the eye.

Glaucoma as stated can cause permanent loss of vision if it is not treated. There is no way to determine whether the glaucoma has been successfully controlled and as such if you have this condition you should make regular trips to your GP to ensure it does not get out of control.

Mario Santos has been working as an eye wellness expert and has helped hundreds of people who have vision problems. For more information about Glaucoma therapy, visit http://www.eyevisionimprovement.com/ and learn some natural ways to improve your vision.

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Even more celebrities have lost loved ones to cancer,
such as:

Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell (who all lost
their mothers to cancer); Paul McCartney (who lost his first
wife, Linda, to breast cancer); CBS news anchor Katie Couric
(who lost her husband to colon cancer); American Idol David
Cook (who lost his maternal grandfather to lung cancer);
Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News (who lost his mother to
lymphoma and his sister to breast cancer); S. Epatha
Merkerson of “Law and Order” (who lost 2 of her very best
friends to lung cancer) … and the list goes on.

Cancer has become a much bigger threat to human lives –
and has caused more deaths — than all the wars of the world
combined.  In the U.S. alone, every 60 seconds, someone dies
from cancer — and that’s like losing as many people as we
did on 9/11 every 2 days.

Here’s another grim statistic:  Every 3 minutes, someone
new is diagnosed with cancer.  Is it any wonder, then,
that celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, America Ferrera,
Meryl Streep, Lance Armstrong, Scarlett Johansson, Forest
Whitaker, Hilary Swank, Charlize Theron and dozens of
other big-name celebrities banded together to put an end
to cancer during a one-hour television special titled
“Stand Up 2 Cancer?”  The telethon aired on all 3
networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) to raise funds for cancer
research.

The problem with raising funds for cancer research is this:

The funds eventually go towards cancer research that does
NOT cure cancer.  In the 95 years that health organizations like
the American Cancer Society have been dedicated to eliminating
cancer as a major health problem, there has been VERY LITTLE
PROGRESS made in the curing of the deadly disease.  Instead,
the incidence of cancer has grown exponentially over the last
hundred years.

A single cancer fundraising campaign, such as the Avon Walk for
Breast Cancer, for instance, raises approximately $150 million in
funds for cancer research.  Tens of billions of dollars have been
raised by all the fundraising campaigns combined – and yet,
according to the American Cancer Society, there’s still a 41%
probability that an individual, male or female, will develop cancer
in his or her lifetime (or die from it)!

Why have all the billions of dollars raised for cancer research
been FUTILE in curing cancer?

Many people, including the Chairman of the Cancer Prevention
Coalition, Dr. Samuel Epstein, state that the priorities of
health organizations that claim to be dedicated to finding a
cancer cure are “economically motivated, and reflect
conflicts of interests with the pharmaceutical industry,
the pesticide industry, and the mammography industry.”

Another reason why attempts at curing cancer have been
futile thus far is because the funds raised have been allocated
to raising public awareness of the merits of the 3 conventional
cancer therapies – that is, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.

And yet, Oncologist Dr. Tullio Simoncini states that according to
his polls and questionnaires, “75 percent of doctors say they’d
refuse chemotherapy if they were struck with cancer due to its
ineffectiveness and its devastating side effects.”  In fact, the
medical journal, “Clinical Oncology,” published the results of a
study in December 2004, wherein it was shown that
chemotherapy has a success rate of just over 2 percent for
all cancers!  [That's a FAILURE rate of 98%!]

Therefore, funneling research funds towards the advancement
of ineffective therapies that don’t eliminate the root CAUSE
of cancer will always be a losing proposition.

The fact is, the business of “curing” cancer – or any disease,
for that matter — has become an overcomplicated system
that is usually invasive and expensive.  More often than not,
it also does more harm than good – and the “good” that it does
is limited to relieving only the SYMPTOMS of the disease, and
not its CAUSE.

But now, there is a simple and natural therapy that is
scientifically proven to eradicate cancer – without the need
for surgery, drugs or radiation.  In fact, this therapy has been
prescribed and administered by more than 15,000
European doctors, naturopaths and health
practitioners to heal not just cancer but most other
diseases, including AIDS, heart disease, Parkinson’s
Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and diabetes, to name a few.

Before I found this therapy, my father died of colon cancer
in 1999.

It was painful for him, but maybe even more painful
for us, his family, to watch as he writhed in agony
during the last 6 months of his life.  If you ever
witness someone you love die like this, it will change
your life forever, just as it has changed mine.

If you thought that experience must’ve been awful,
my nightmare continued when, not long after my father
died, my sister was stricken with cervical cancer; and then
my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Both of
them are in remission now because their respective cancers
were surgically removed.  But I couldn’t help but fear that
their cancers would recur just like my father’s cancer did
after a few years of remission — and I was afraid that they,
too, might die just as my father did.

This is why I’ve been tireless in my pursuit to find a cure
for cancer — to save the lives of my beloved mother and
sister.  My search led me to find this scientifically proven
therapy that proved to be much more than I was looking for.

Alternative health practitioners, as well as researchers and
doctors, have yet to find a disease that does NOT respond well
to this therapy.  And best of all, when this self-administered
one-minute therapy is used properly, there are no known risks.

When I stumbled upon this remarkable therapy, I used it on
myself to successfully eradicate a chronic throat inflammation
(that I feared would become cancerous) in just 2 weeks –  and
my husband experienced a SPECTACULAR reversal of a serious
lymphatic condition that he had suffered from all his life, and
which was considered “incurable.”  I knew then that this therapy
was the closest thing to a panacea that I had been looking for.

I began to think that it would be a DISSERVICE to humanity
to keep information about this therapy available only to the
limited number of people who stumbled upon it by accident
(like I did).  That’s why I sat down and wrote “The One-Minute
Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases” – see
http://scrnch.me/82ya4

Even as I was writing the book, I knew I’d meet with
tremendous opposition because the simple therapy which
is detailed in the book, represents the biggest threat to the
trillion-dollar revenues of the pharmaceutical and medical
industries.

Today, I remain convinced that if all the funds raised for cancer
research were dedicated to putting this book in the hands of
every man and woman on the planet, we could not only stamp out
cancer altogether but also have a world that is free of disease.

I urge you to get this book today and learn the one-minute cure
for yourself – and give a copy of the book to all the people you
care about, as well as people who are battling disease, or people
who don’t have health insurance – before the “powers that be”
in the pharmaceutical industry force this book out of circulation.

Go to  http://scrnch.me/82ya4

Wishing you the best of health and freedom from disease,

Yours Sincerely

JanuszJanulis
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Who makes a good candidate for Lasik surgery?

Lasik eye surgery is best suited for people over the age of 18 in most cases, but sometimes it is necessary to wait longer. The main concern is to wait until the condition of your eyes, specifically your vision, remains stable for at least one year. This is generally something that happens around the age of 18.

This procedure is not suitable for women who are nursing or pregnant. It simply isn’t worth the risk to the unborn child. It is also not suitable for those who do not have healthy eyes; however, most people who have vision problems have relatively healthy eyes. This procedure is not good for those who have damaged corneas and certain diseases that impact the eyes.

You must also have realistic expectations of what the surgery can mean for you, and of the risks involved in the procedure before being labeled an ideal candidate. There are risks involved in every surgery no matter how minor. The same holds true for Lasik Eye Surgery Albuquerque ophthalmologists want you to be aware of those risks and the fact that you may not experience perfect vision after the procedure.

The numbers in favor of you having good results are impressive, but there is a risk involved that it will not help or may make matters worse. You must understand this before the surgery in order to be considered.

Dr. Gilberto Griffin is affiliated with Associated Retinal Consultants of Arizona. He is board certified in ophthalmology and is a fellowship trained vitreoretinal surgeon. He comes to the Eye & Laser Center to provide Arizona residents with advanced retinal care, including Photodynamic Laser Therapy for retinal degener­ation, laser therapy for retinal vascular diseases, and retinal detachment surgery.

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While Avastin has been used to treat colorectal cancer, it has not been approved to treat macular degeneration. Some ECPs only use Avastin in the form of off label. Studies show that Avastin brings positive results in AMD treatment. Like these FDA-approved treatments such as Lucentis and Macugen, Avastin also function by injection into the eye.

Another treatment aiming at stopping the abnormal blood vessel growth is named Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Trap-Eye. This treatment was reported to be as effective as Lucentis for wet AMD.

Retaane treats advanced macular degeneration by attacking enzymes, which allows abnormal blood vessel growth. Left untreated, enzymes will weaken the walls of retinal blood vessels. Retaane performs in a way that is quite different from most of those AMD treatments. It is deposited behind the eye alongside the sclera and will be replaced every six months.

By preventing abnormal blood vessel development, Combretastatin is indicated to slow or halt myopia AMD progression, which affects young people with some eye diseases. The company is still carrying out clinical studies to demonstrate that whether the treatment is effective for AMD on old people.

Encapsulated Cell Technology (ECT) is designed to maintain sustained release of genetically engineered cells, in order to reduce retinal damage. Radiation treatment such as X-rays is also used to deal with AMD, which is still under early clinical studies.

AMD can be treated in another particular way. Since AMD is associated with slow blood flow and capillary vessel damage caused by macro-proteins and fatty components, procedures that can remove these harmful substances are effective. One of such procedures is the RHED procedure, which is also under trials.

Injected into a vein in the arm, the ICG dye is used to detect the presence and location of neovascular vessels. The Feeder Vessel Therapy also uses a high speed camera to trace the dye during its progression into the abnormal vessels.

AMD patients always have central blind spots, so that doctors have invented a tiny, implanted device to magnify images onto the retina. This treatment is known as implantable telescope, which has received significant clinical trial results.

Another potential AMD treatment is Transpupillary Thermotherapy, which combines an infrared laser and drug treatment. While its creator announces positive effects, some patients say it is dissatisfying.

Other researches focus on both artificial retinas and gene therapy, which are in early stages. Artificial retina can permanently recover the vision of AMD patients. Gene therapy is conceived to introduce specially encoded genes to alter AMD process.

For patients failed to get satisfied with all those moderate treatments. They can finally resort to an AMD surgery, which can remove the damaged tissues.

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If Eyes Can Get Worse, They Can Get Better

Have you ever given it any thought that that if your eyes can get worse (not see clearly) they can get better (see clearly again).  Our bodies were made to heal.  This is what ophthalmologist Dr. Wm H. Bates discovered over 90 year ago.  He asked,”If glasses are correct why do they continually need to be strengthened, while the eyes under their influence have been weakened?”  Glasses are a crutch, and not intended to be used for a lifetime.  As with all crutches, their purpose is to allow you to function (see to drive etc.) until your own muscles are strengthened and you no longer need the crutch.

In the Eye-Robics vision training process this is exactly what we do.  If a person has a strong prescription we have them wear a weaker prescription (safe for driving) for where ever they are visually.  This allows the eyes to function more under the lens and allows continued progress in getting healthier and clearer vision; you treat your glasses like a pair of crutches, using them when you need to see for safety etc. and leaving them off other times to allow the eyes to loosen up and function.   As the vision improves, a lesser prescription is needed and the person goes into a healthy spiral of weaker and weaker glasses until none are needed. The number of prescription changes varies with the persons need for clarity in their profession and the strength of the prescription. Someone with a mild prescription may never need a weaker prescription.  A strong prescription may need two or three changes.

There is a way to keep your eyes healthy and fit, even if you have glaucoma, or cataracts along with whatever reason you originally went into glasses, such as myopia (nearsightedness), presbyopia (farsightedness), astigmatism or any other eye problem even strabismus or a phoria..

Eyes Can Learn To Be Healthy And Function For A Lifetime

What does it mean to have healthy eyes?  If your vision is 20/20 and the demands on your eyes are not causing you physical strain and discomfort in your eyes, head, neck and back, then you have healthy eyes. If you are not seeing clearly and experience getting stronger and stronger lenses every year or two, have glaucoma, cataracts, astigmatism or any other eye problems then you need to consider a healthier alternative.

If you look around you and in care homes, you will find that the “Golden Years” are not  so “Golden”. So many older people have glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, ptosis (drooping eyelid), etc. Most all of these conditions are a result of stress which causes lack of functioning and circulation over time. This condition over a period of time causes deterioration.  The medical profession calls it old age, but eyes can learn how to be healthier and function for a lifetime.

The Cause And Cure Of Vision Problems

Dr. Wm. H. Bates, ophthalmologist, pioneered vision therapy in the early1900′s; he discovered the cause and the cure of vision problems. He discovered that tension in the mind interfered with the involuntary focusing muscles of the eye. In the normal eye whether you look near or far, the eye automatically focuses where you put your attention. This is called eye-mind coordination. We see with our mind first directing our attention. Vision is 9/10 mental and 1/10 physical. The eyes are tools of the mind.

Just as ulcers and heart attacks are caused by prolonged stress (psycho somatic illness), so is the vision affected by stress. These stresses are always accompanied by changes: people moving, changing schools, a divorce, a death, career changes, a difficult relationship. These changes create stress and an element of the unknown which evokes fear. This fear is usually repressed as a survival mechanism and never dealt with again.

Learn To Relax

As opposed to a medical or mechanical approach, this vision training is based on the principle of relaxation. It teaches specific techniques and skills for relaxing mental stress, releasing muscle tension and restoring muscle flexibility. It releases the strain that keeps you from seeing clearly and re-educates the mind and body in good seeing habits again.  You once saw clearly.  Relearning is five times faster than learning.

It’s easy, safe, fun and it’s for everyone, regardless of age or strength of glasses (prescription). The Dr. Bates Method which I call Eye-Robics is physical therapy for the eyes. The process allows the muscles to return to functioning and therefore a healthy state allowing good circulation.

Benefits

The benefits are tremendous stress reduction on the autonomic nervous system. Dr. Bates says, ”All vision problems are nerve problems”. So the solution/cure for glaucoma, cataracts and all eye problems is this natural physical therapy process called Eye-Robics. Healthy eyes do not have eye problems. This natural process teaches you how to have fit and normal vision again and gives you the tools to keep your eyes healthy and fit for the rest of your life.  An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure but it does not matter where you are visually, you start from where you are.

A journey is not taken until the first step, then its one step at a time.  It is a wise man who is willing to improve his/her state of being when a brighter path is shown.