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Gene therapy offers hope for wet AMD sufferers
Monday 21 October 2019
New gene therapy treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration is showing promise, a new report has revealed.
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Gene therapy offers hope for wet AMD sufferers

21 Oct 2019
1 billion people globally have preventable eye conditions
Wednesday 16 October 2019
A new study by The UN Health Agency has found that 2.2 billion people globally have some variation of vision impairment or blindness.
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1 billion people globally have preventable eye conditions

16 Oct 2019
Smoking and vaping can cause serious eye problems
Tuesday 08 October 2019
Stoptober is a key time of the year for people wanting to quit smoking or vaping.
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Smoking and vaping can cause serious eye problems

8 Oct 2019
Sight ranked the most valuable sense
Monday 07 October 2019
A new study by the City, University of London has found the UK general public rank sight as the most valuable sense you possess.
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Sight ranked the most valuable sense

7 Oct 2019
Car exhausts cause increased risk of AMD
Thursday 19 September 2019
New research carried out in Taiwan has found Tailpipe pollution can pose a significant risk to aged eyes and the increased development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Car exhausts cause increased risk of AMD

19 Sep 2019
Help is calling you, pick up the phone
Monday 02 September 2019
An app called ‘Be my eyes’ created a way for people who are blind or suffer from low-vision to complete everyday tasks that they wouldn’t be able to on their own.
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Help is calling you, pick up the phone

2 Sep 2019
Major breakthrough in understanding dry AMD
Monday 12 August 2019
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have revealed a major breakthrough that could have implications for sufferers of the dry form of Age-Related Macular Degeneration, one of the most common forms of vision loss.
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Major breakthrough in understanding dry AMD

12 Aug 2019
Artificial Intelligence used to identify existing drugs that could treat AMD
Wednesday 17 April 2019
An artificial intelligence company and a collaboration between four UK-based sight loss charities has found that a number of existing drugs could possibly reduce sight loss from age-related macular degeneration.
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Artificial Intelligence used to identify existing drugs that could treat AMD

17 Apr 2019
Three new gene targets for AMD identified
Thursday 28 March 2019
Using cells from 44 human eye donors, an international team of research scientists has identified three genes not previously known to be associated with Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), paving the way for the development of much-needed new therapie
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Three new gene targets for AMD identified

28 Mar 2019
Welcome trial news for AMD sufferers
Monday 17 December 2018
A recent trial involving 220 macular degeneration sufferers has shown that a “long-acting port delivery system” (in other words, a slow-release implant) has allowed some of the trial group to go up to 15 months between treatments.
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Welcome trial news for AMD sufferers

17 Dec 2018
Quicker, safer research into macular degeneration therapies.
Thursday 13 December 2018
Scientists say eye-on-a-chip technology may provide a new, quicker research opportunity for the study of macular degeneration, if proposals made recently at the University of Twente (UT) in Holland are adopted.
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Quicker, safer research into macular degeneration therapies.

13 Dec 2018
A step closer to eye drops for AMD
Monday 19 November 2018
Last year, a team from the University of Birmingham invented a method of delivering macular degeneration drugs which are currently injected into the eyeball as eye drops.
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A step closer to eye drops for AMD

19 Nov 2018