Animal and cell studies show that as retinal cells die in degenerative eye diseases, they make other cells hyperactive, creating noise that further obscures vision. Tests to prove this in humans are ...

IN RECENT years two new drugs have been added to the physician's armamentarium in his fight against alcoholic addiction. The action of the first one, tetraethyl thiuram disulfide, with the commercial ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that a drug once widely used to wean alcoholics off of drinking helps to improve sight in mice with retinal degeneration. The drug may ...

Studies by researchers at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, suggest that a drug once widely used to help alcoholics abstain from drinking can also work to improve sight in mice with retinal ...