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Article: Eye Drops Can Delay Onset of Glaucoma.
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- June 13, 2002
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Byline: Washington University, St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, June 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A study led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that drops that lower eye pressure can delay the onset of glaucoma. The eye drops reduced the development of open-angle glaucoma by more than 50 percent. The study appears in the June 2002 issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.
"The fundamental question we asked was whether you can delay or prevent people from developing glaucoma," says Michael A. Kass, M.D., national chair of the 22-center study and head of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Washington ...