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Celebrities With Macular Degeneration or Stargardt’s Disease

Helen Zachary — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 06:16:22 +0000

Celebrities With Macular Degeneration or Stargardt’s Disease. Macular degeneration is an eye condition, usually affecting older adults, that leads to vision loss. It is prevalent around the world with as many as 11 million Americans estimated to have some form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Worldwide, an estimated 196 million people will have AMD five …

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Celebrities With Glaucoma & the New Zioptan Drug

Helen Zachary — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:13:47 +0000

What do soul musician Ray Charles, astronaut John Glenn, tenor Andrea Bocelli, Canadian visual artist Tony Max, guitarist Jose Feliciano, and over other 60.5 million people in the world have in common? Glaucoma. The second leading cause of blindness globally after cataracts, it’s a common but deadly eye disease. What’s particularly insidious about glaucoma is …

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Vitamin A Drug (Fenretinide) Can Prevent Blindness for Older People?

Helen Zachary — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:36:48 +0000

A drug based on Vitamin A, the vitamin found in carrots, shows promising results in preventing the loss of eye sight due to old age. The drug Fenretinide was able to stop the advance of dry age-related macular degeneration during the preliminary clinical trial, researchers announced. During the trial, almost 250 men and women with …

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