A biotech company called Second Sight in Sylmar, California, has some amazing technology to create a retinal prosthesis to provide sight to blind patients suffering from outer retinal diseases, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa.
The technology consists of a [...]
Progress in the treatment of AMD has come a long way in recent years. New treatments including gene therapy are in the research phases and appear very promising in the fight against this serious and all too common cause of vision loss.
From the NIH :
Thirty Years Ago —-Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
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AMD was an untreatable disease [...]
