News: Sept. 5-6, 2016

These are links that I shared with the Facebook group for these dates.

• September 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine cover story “The End of Blindness”
• There are other diseases of the macula (other than AMD & Stargardt’s).
  • There is Mactel 1 and 2 (Mactel is the abbreviation of a LONG technical name)
  • North Carolina Macular Dystrophy
• Coping
  • It’s important to monitor for changes, one way is with ForeseeHome
  • Classes and tools help in the kitchen
• Research
  • Two studies working on delivering treatment by eye drops to replace injections in treating wet AMD
    • Gene therapy through a droplet
    • Using flourine to deliver medication to the macular