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Emerging Treatment Stabilizes Vision For People With Dry AMD
Emerging Treatment Stabilizes Vision in People with Dry AMD

Owings Mills, MD – March 26, 2009 – An innovative technology, employing a tiny capsule implanted in the eye, is stabilizing vision in people suffering from dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Encapsulated Cell Technology (ECT), developed by Rhode Island-based Neurotech, preserved vision in a majority of the 51 people who participated in a Phase II clinical trial.
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Interesting New Approach For Guidance For The Blind
By Carolyn Livengood San Mateo County Times
Posted: 02/14/2009

Ed Gallagher, a former building contractor and visual artist who lost his sight 10 years ago due to retinitis pigmentosa, has developed the Genoa Connection system to provide remote assistance for the sight-impaired. Read the rest of this entry »

Opening society’s eyes
People with visual impairments say they just want chance to contribute. Jim Pfiffer

You can’t tell that Mariann Graley is legally blind by looking at her. That’s the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

Artificial Vision Research

Joseph Rizzo III was researching retinal transplants to restore blind people’s vision. One day, removing a lab animal’s retina, a tissue-thin membrane that
lines the back of the eyeball’s interior, he had an epiphany. “The moment I made the cut, I said to myself, ‘What in the hell are you doing?” Rizzo recounts.

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