Posts Tagged ‘National Eye Institute’

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is becoming more of a problem today then ever before.

There are several factors of poor eye sight these days, including under-nutrition, poor lifestyle habits and drug side effects. But, other enemies are flat screen televisions and computer screens.

We were all warned of the dangers of sitting too close to the TV when we were kids, right?

Take a look around you. Now, everyone is straining to read their iPod, Kindle, laptop and …

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 …