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Steve is highly respected for his expertise and tireless commitment to finding treatments and cures for vision-robbing retinal diseases.
Posts Tagged ‘retinitis pigmentosa’
There’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.
Israel Update: Genetic Discovery Highlighted at Retinal Research Conference
Tel Aviv, Israel
Now that I’m back from my trip to Israel, I wanted to offer a couple more posts about my visit, the first covering a fascinating research conference in Tel Aviv.
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The Importance of Stem Cells (a guest post from Dr. David Gamm)
Photograph by Andy Manis.
When I joined the University of Wisconsin (UW) in 2003, I saw stem cell research as having great potential to benefit patients with retinal degenerations. I also saw stem cells as a way to answer basic science questions about the retina and the conditions that affect it. As a scientist and a pediatric ophthalmologist, these goals were really important to me.
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Israel Update: Visits to the Western Wall and the Hadassah Medical Center
The Wailing Wall, Israel
So, my prayers were answered. As I mentioned in my last post, my luggage did not arrive with me in Israel, but, as the airlines promised, it did a day later, so I haven’t had to keep wearing the same clothes. Thank goodness.
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Rockin’ and Rollin’ for a Good Cause
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