Daily News – Page 4 – My Macular Degeneration Journal

News: July 18, 2017

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

News: July 17, 2016

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’.

News: July 16, 2016

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

News: July 15, 2016

Coping

Research
- AMD can start as early as 35
- Story of man’s successful stem cell surgery and proposed US legislation

Technology
- On an iPhone with an up-to-date IOS, there is a Health app where you can create a Medical ID

Nutrition
- Mangos
- Natural Tips for Fantastic Vision

News: July 14, 2016

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’.

News: July 13, 2016

Personal stories
- Interview with man who had telescopic implant to restore vision lost to AMD

Nutrition

Technology
- Tutorial for using screen reader for Windows
- 5 Amazing Inventions That Are Helping the Visually Impaired

Research
- Research into use of medications for osteoporosis and wet AMD
- There are 2 questions asked and answered. Ironically, the first question talks about osteoporosis and possible need for medication (see the link above this one about meds used for osteoporosis & wet AMD). The second question is about AMD.
- Visual acuity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain
- Using a virus to deliver opsins (light-sensitive proteins) to photoreceptors to restore vision

News: July 12, 2016

Caution against ‘stem cell tourism’

Tips for living with low vision
- Kindle e-book readers: which one is right for me
- Source for free and inexpensive e-books: BookBub
- Inspirational: 22 year old blind woman at Apple
- Great article “When People Say ‘You Don’t Look Blind'” We recommend you look at the rest of the blog, it’s one we follow

Websites we like
- New website: IMRF International Macular Retinal Foundation
- Bold Blind Beauty blog

Research
- Saffron shows promise

News: This week in AMD July 4th to July 10th, 2016

I know not all of you are in the Facebook group so I’m going to start posting some of the links that I share there. I am going to start with posts from the past week and then I will try to post them each day. To go to an article, click on the title. If you find any links that don’t work or don’t go to the correct place, please email me at light2sight5153@gmail.com.

I hope that this doesn’t discourage you from joining us on Facebook. The advantage there is that we are discussing these articles and other things. We are learning from each other!

General
- One of the best videos about AMD. It uses illustrations & animation to explain the differences between dry and wet AMD and talks about what VEG-F is regarding wet AMD and injections.
- Another good video, this one from Australia
- A list of lists related to low vision and AMD. This is a great source of information.