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May 28, 2020
Genentech’s Port Delivery System for Wet AMD Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 3 Clinical Trial
Tiny implant provides continual delivery of anti-VEGF treatment for six months
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Apr 15, 2020
Eye Disease Studies Suggest Mediterranean Diet is Good for the Brain
A healthy diet is also important for people with retinal conditions
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Mar 12, 2020
Seeing hope: Ledyard nonprofit focuses on rare retinal diseases
Sofia Priebe, 17, is legally blind. Her parents have started a nonprofit, Sofia Sees Hope, to raise funds for research into and awareness of the rare genetic disease Leber congenital amaurosis, which causes her blindness.
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Mar 5, 2020
ARVO 2014: LCA Gene Therapy Recipient Featured During Keynote
15-year-old Yannick Duwe transfixed the audience, describing how the treatment enabled him to use a computer instead of Braille, and work much easier and faster at school.
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Proceed with Caution as Cell-Based Retinal Disease Therapies Show Promise.
In recent years, the number of stem cell treatments offered by various clinics claiming to benefit retinal eye disease has increased. Of concern, are those clinics administering stem cell-based therapies that do not adhere to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) standards. Recently, a federal court ruled that the FDA has regulatory authority over stem cell procedures and has the power to halt them, even if the stem cells originate from the participating patient.
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Feb 14, 2020
People with disabilities are no different from anyone else. We all have strengths and challenges, and we all seek to be fully engaged in society. Treating blind people differently, either as incapable of conducting everyday tasks in life, or conversely, acting as though our ability to conduct even the most mundane chore is remarkable can be discouraging.
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Since its founding in 1971, the Foundation Fighting Blindness has been dedicated to funding innovative research to find preventions, treatments, and cures for inherited retinal degenerative diseases that lead to blindness and affect more than 10 million people in the United States.
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Feb 6, 2020
My Retina Tracker Program is the highest volume IRD genetic testing program in the U.S.