by Dan Roberts Margaret’s Story “I was making my way down the sidewalk. I heard the clack-clack of skateboard wheels coming at me head-on. I couldn’t see which way to step, so I just froze in place, hoping the child would have good maneuvering skills. “He didn’t. He collided with my bad hip, and his [Read More]
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Sleeping Too Much Will *Not* Cause Blindness
Editorial by Dan Roberts Recent research has found an association between longer sleep duration and advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (dAMD), also known as geographic atrophy. This has been misconstrued by at least one media outlet to mean that too much sleep might actually cause the disease. That is absolutely untrue. According to the researchers, “Sleeping [Read More]
Experimental Gene Therapies Still Raising Hopes
Wills Eye Hospital has announced that it has treated the first RESCUE trial patient in the United States enrolled in an FDA-approved gene therapy vision research study. A product called GS010 (GenSight Biologics), can be injected right into the eye and, in a sense, “re-wire” or lower the patient’s risk for getting the disease. The patient has [Read More]
Similarity of Anti-VEGF Drugs Confirmed For DME Treatment
A rigorous clinical trial has found that individuals with diabetic macular edema (DME), whose visual acuity is 20/50 or worse, gained more improvement with Eylea than with Avastin. Aside from that, no significant difference was found among the three anti-VEGF drugs (including Lucentis) in subjects with 20/32 or 20/40 vision at the start of treatment. By two years, 41 percent of participants in the [Read More]
Large Study Shows 1 in 5 People With Vision Loss Experience Hallucinations
A new study conducted by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has found that one in five Canadians with vision loss who were surveyed experience visual hallucinations, known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS). The study, titled “Prevalence of visual hallucinations in a national low vision client population”, published in the most recent issue [Read More]