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Rockin’ and Rollin’ for a Good Cause

01Jun
Author: Dr. Steve Rose 0 comments

Andy and Kim HilfigerWell, this is a first: the Foundation was mentioned, this week, in Rolling Stone magazine. Why? Because one of our fundraising dinner events, “Fashion Ball: Dining in the Dark,” brought together professionals from both the fashion and music industries at the The Plaza Hotel in New York City and raised more than $370,000.

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Newsflash: Blindness is Expensive

29May
Author: Dr. Steve Rose 10 comments

Image of colorful eyeThere’s a recent research paper from the Archives of Ophthalmology on the health care costs of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) that’s spurred lots of discussion around the FFB office. Led by Dr. Kevin Frick, of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, the study compared the annual health care costs of nearly 3,000 people with RP to 3,000 people without. The bottom line: People with RP had $7,317 more in annual health care expenditures.

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