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Visiting with Maryon McCalla at her Lakeside apartment in Dassel, one would never guess she recently celebrated her 100th birthday.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)WHEN Ontario’s government last moved to save money on health care, all hell broke loose.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing forms of blindness.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Embryonic stem cells appear to help 2 blind patients seeBend BulletinThe second patient, Sue Freeman, had been slowly losing her vision for more than 20 years because of dry macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world. Freeman had been forced to stop driving.and more »
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Reporting in The Lancet, researchers write that a preliminary study shows embryonic stem cell therapy in two patients with macular degeneration was safe.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Age Related Macular Degeneration is one of the leading causes of severe vision loss in adults ages 55 and older.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Vitamin D anti-ageing hopeInsideireland.ieThe results showed reduced levels of amyloid beta – a toxic protein linked to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), heart disease and Alzheimer's – in the eyes and blood vessels which saw significant improvement in their vision.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Early follow-up of first human embryonic stem cells transplanted into …OSN SuperSiteThe prospective trials evaluated subretinal transplantation of human embryonic stem cells derived from retinal pigment epithelium in one patient with Stargardt's macular dystrophy and one patient with dry age-related macular degeneration.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Research to Prevent Blindness has awarded a grant of $100,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of blinding eye diseases.
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(click on the author link above to see full post)Lpath Puts the Brakes on Two Ophthalmology Trials due to Manufacturing IssuesGenetic Engineering NewsThe Phase II studies included Nexus in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and PEDigree in retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) detachment. Both were at the patient-dosing stage. FDA found that the company's fill/finish contractor, Formatech, …and more »
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