NEI Research News

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered a substance that allows people with uveitis, a potentially blinding eye disease, to stop or reduce the need for powerful drugs.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered that a combination of protease inhibitors and other anti-HIV drugs used to treat people with AIDS

The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its report accompanying the fiscal year 1997 Appropriations Bill, has requested a report from the National Eye Institute (NEI).

Researchers have stopped patient enrollment and treatment in a study designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a new drug to treat a blinding eye infection common in people with AIDS.

Follow-up results from a study of premature babies with a potentially blinding condition confirm that a freezing treatment applied to their eyes helps save their sight.

A combination of two antiviral drugs is more effective than either drug alone for controlling recurrences of a blinding eye infection common in people with AIDS, according to new clinical trial results from a federally-sponsored study.

Laser therapy is a safe and effective alternative to eyedrops as afirst-line treatment for patients with newly diagnosed primaryopen-angle glaucoma, according to research results released today.

A clinical trial has found that vitrectomy, a surgical procedure to replace the gel-like filling inside the eye, need not be performed on approximately three-fourths of patients who develop a bacterial infection.

A National Eye Institute-supported clinical trial reported today that surgery for a potentially blinding condition was ineffective and may be harmful to a person’s vision.

A National Eye Institute (NEI) clinical trial reported today that anew, drug-releasing device was effective in treating cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, a sight-threatening disease that affects one out of four people with AIDS.