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Apr 30, 2013
Researcher Revolutionized Fight Against Blindness and Cancer
A profile on Dr. Robert Langer, a medical researcher who has received dozens of awards, accolades and honorary degrees, including, recently, FFB’s Visionary Award.
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Apr 10, 2013
Reflections on Life with Usher Syndrome
Foundation Board Member Moira Shea describes her life with a retinal disease.
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Mar 29, 2013
DHA and EPA for Stargardt Disease — an Evolving Story
These healthy fats have exciting potential for treating a wide range of retinal degenerations and other health conditions.
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Mar 22, 2013
What Losing Vision Has Taught Me
Author Shawn Maloney describes his journey with RP.
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Mar 15, 2013
Proving a Vision-Saving Treatment Works
The information gleaned from ProgSTAR will be of enormous value in designing future clinical trials for Stargardt disease treatments.
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Mar 8, 2013
Staying Alive: Saving Retinal Cells to Preserve Vision
Sometimes, saving vision simply comes down to keeping retinal cells alive, or at least slowing their degeneration.
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Feb 18, 2013
More good news about treatments and technological advances for restoring vision for people with retinal diseases.
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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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Dec 18, 2012
Curing Blindness, Part 1: Corey’s Story
How gene therapy restored some of a boy’s sight.