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• Nutrition
  • Three retinal pigments
  • orange veggies
  • olive oil may prevent AMD
  • 7 foods and nutrients for healthy eyes
• Research
  • 3 medications may protect photoreceptors
• Technology
  • Getting your feet wet with assistive technology
• Coping
  • 8 things I wish people would know about my low vision
  • UK: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 and 2 available RNIB library
  • US: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child not yet available
  • US: Will there be an audio version of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
  • For caregivers of those who have AMD

This will be the last page I’ll publish before I take a break (I’m ‘getting out of Dodge’, too) until Monday, August 8th.   There won’t be a Daily News Post until then as well.  I’ll be baaccckkk! Lin/Linda…

We all need hugs but sometimes there just isn’t anyone handy.  We CAN hug ourselves.

Rock Your Cares Away

26th Anniversary of ADA in the US (Americans with Disability Act).  

• Research:
  • Can optician detect Alzheimer’s?
  • Study: examines risk of serious infection about injections
  • The future: gene therapy in a droplet

• Coping
  • Grocery delivery in the US: Peapod
  • Healthywomen.org: What women need to know about AMD
  • UK: Telephone book clubs
  • Reading stories of other with impaired vision

• Nutrition
  • Sweet Potatoes

• Coping
  • Do you belong to a support group? What can they do for you.
  • FAQs about glaucoma Did you know that one of the side effects of the injections for wet AMD is increased eye pressure which can lead to glaucoma?
• Research
  • Laboratory success (ie, tested on mice only) in preventing damage to the RPEs and thus preventing AMD with 2 drugs that are on the market for other uses.  The next step will be to get a patent for the 2-drug treatment and then start the pre-clinical trials followed by the clinical trials.

• Coping
  • JulEYE is the perfect time to check your vision.  Article that says “The fact we’ve got something available to keep these people seeing is wonderful because eight or nine years ago we had nothing available.”

• Research
  • Compound in broccoli may be early stage treatment for AMD

• Nutrition
  • Black beans
  • Eggs

• Coping
  • Part 1: There is Hope, There is Help
  • Part 2: Understanding Low Vision & Low Vision Devices

• Research
  • Why are patients being denied cutting-edge therapy in the US?
  • From the Macular Degeneration Foundation: “Exclusive Online Videos Featuring World’s Leading Eye Researchers” https://macularnews.org/The Macular Degeneration Foundation puts out a quarterly newsletter which I highly recommend. You can request a printed one or you can download a text version or a interactive version. When you click on the link below, you’ll find an option that says ‘follow’.

• Nutrition
  • Mediterranean Style Kale Salad

• Risk Factors
  • Quit smoking!

• Research
  • Encouraging research into removing genetic code that causes blindness and replacing it with healthy code
  • Israeli research shows success with stem cell treatment in phase 1 clinical trial

• Coping
  • How do you help someone whose loved one is blind or has low vision?
  • Monthly phone chats
  • Talking Books by digital download
  • Guide to buying magnifyers

• Technology
  • First blind drive of self-driving car

• Research
  • Interview with Doug Oliver whose vision was improved through stem cell surgery. This is the man who is working with Congress to make stem cell therapy more available.  Article calls AMD ‘rare’.