Blind Spot: Our Coming Eye Disease Epidemic

Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

Almost 2 million Americans have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and about 100,000 are blind from the disease. In AMD, cells in the retina, that layer of tissue in the back of the eye, begin to break down. What was once sharp central vision becomes blurry.  read more

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