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Partnership Promotes the Goal Of Integrating Eye And Vision Issues To Help Make State Public Health Efforts More Cost Effective

CHICAGO(Jan. 30, 2012)–Millions of Americans are facing visual impairment and blindness.  With healthcare costs continuing to increase, state and public health agencies must work together to aid individuals who are at...

Eating for the Eyes Should Always be a Part of the Menu

Maintaining A Healthy Diet Can Help Protect Vision from Age-related Macular Degeneration

CHICAGO(Jan. 24, 2012)–We’ve all heard the expression “eating with your eyes,” but many...

EyeCAN Appropriations, Sept. 2011

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The eyes are the window into the soul - or at least the mind, according to a new paper published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Measuring the diameter of the pupil, the part of the eye that changes size to let in...

A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene in the eye with a normal working copy that supplies a protein necessary for light-sensitive...

Members of a University of Pennsylvania research team have shown that they can prevent, or even reverse, a blinding retinal disease, X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa, or XLRP, in dogs. The disease in humans and dogs is caused by defects in the RPGR gene and results in early, severe and progressive vision...