Fighting Blindness Canada

New Treatment Target for AMD Identified

For people living with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the first line of treatment is anti-VEGF injections Anti-VEGF injections have...

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Fighting Blindness Canada

Clinical Trial Results for New Treatments for AMD and DME

Anti-VEGF medications can prevent vision loss and even restore some vision for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients However, they require...

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NEI Finds No Evidence Calcium Increases AMD Risk

Taking calcium supplements or eating a diet rich in high-calcium foods such as milk, cheese and kale is not linked to an increased risk to...

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Study finds Ethnic Differences in Patient-Reported AMD Symptoms

A newly published study in JAMA Ophthalmology has found differences in visual acuity between different ethnic populations living with AMD in...

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Using Genome Surgery to Prevent Progression of AMD

Scientists at the Center for Genome Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea report the use of CRISPR-Cas9 in performing...

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