Posts Tagged ‘macular degeneration’

Few people realize that macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness for men and women aged 55 and over. It affects millions of people from all over the world.

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In January 1997, Dr. Carl Kupfer, then the Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, stated publicly that macular degeneration will soon take on aspects of an epidemic!

Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for age related macular degeneration.  However, there is a way …

Just about everyone’s heard of the Serenity Prayer,

God, Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Few have ever heard the extended version, which I have included later. The reason I bring this up is because millions of people end up accepting things they can change.

They may have the courage to create lasting change, but if they don’t know that change …

Breaking News!  Permanent AMD Blindness An Epidemic

Few people realize that macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness for men and women aged 55 and over.  It affects millions of people from all over the world.

In January 1997, Dr. Carl Kupfer, then the Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, stated publicly that macular degeneration will soon take on aspects of an epidemic!

Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for …

By Bob Condor

More Americans are having trouble reading eye charts. That’s the bottom-line finding from a study published earlier this month in the Archives of Ophthalmology medical journal. Nearly half of all U.S. adults have some sort of vision problem, far greater than any previous estimates. One difference is a much larger number of people with nearsightedness or myopia.

Interestingly, the new stat aligns more closely with other countries’ collective adult vision For instance, it’s a straight-on match with …