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Jan 15, 2013
Why Face Recognition Can Be Difficult with Central Vision Loss
Diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, cone-rod dystrophy and Stargardt disease cause scotomas, or blind spots, which often have devastating effects on central vision. They cause gaps in a person’s visual field, making it difficult to see words in a book, images on a computer monitor or TV and the features of someone’s face.
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Jan 10, 2013
Orphan Drugs Get Special Treatment
For developers of treatments for rare diseases — including inherited retinal conditions — “orphan” status provides valuable benefits, such as tax incentives, access to special research grants and assistance with clinical trial design.
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Jan 4, 2013
Getting the Right Diagnosis for a Retinal Disease
Definitive diagnoses for inherited retinal diseases don’t always come easy, even for the patients of the most knowledgeable doctors.
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Nov 29, 2012
Research has suggested that DHA in your diet is good for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases, neurological conditions, depression and a slew of other conditions and maladies, including those that affect the retina.
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Nov 6, 2012
Thanks to recent advances in stem cell research, we are getting closer to replacing cells in the retina lost to diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.
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Nov 2, 2012
Turning Stem Cells Into "Super" Models
Scientists have found a way to take a small skin or blood sample from a patient, turn back the clock on those sample cells so they become stem cells, and then coax them forward to become photoreceptors, or any other cell type in the body.
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Jul 27, 2012
Tempering the Immune System to Save Vision
Great progress is being made in identifying targets for therapies, including using the body’s own protective systems to keep the photoreceptors alive.
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Jun 12, 2012
Could Combining Future Treatments Be an Option?
How therapies will likely be used synergistically in the future.
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May 3, 2012
The FDA's Indispensible Role (a guest blog from Dr. Patricia Zilliox)
While it may not seem obvious, the FDA ultimately drives everything — the researchers and the money. That’s because without FDA approval, you have no treatment, even if you have great research and adequate funding.
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Apr 11, 2012
There's More Than One Way to Correct a Genetic Defect
A quick primer on genes and their critical role in building proteins.