Category: Daily News

• Coping
  • Phone chat August 31th, What’s new in AMD research?
  • Are you eligible for new treatment for advanced AMD?
  • Summary: What is AMD?
• Research
  • Why don’t the RPE cells clean up ‘the garbage’ (aka drusen)
• Nutrition
  • Omega 3
  • Are you getting the most from your AREDS2 vitamins?

• 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.