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Posts Tagged ‘retinitis pigmentosa’

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

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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Tel Aviv, Israel

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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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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The Wailing Wall

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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