Report shows risk of blindness halved over last decade

Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 13:31 in Health & Medicine

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent cause of blindness in the Western World. A report from the University of Copenhagen and Glostrup Hospital in Denmark published today shows the number of new cases of blindness and severe visual loss in Denmark has been halved during the last ten years.

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