Carter Sinclair News : Two studies are of particular note in the Scientific Program of the 2009 Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO): a report by Swiss neuro-ophthalmic researchers about vision exam clues that should make ophthalmologists suspect an atypical variant of Alzheimer’s disease; and [...]
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Carter Sinclair News Alzheimer’s, Myopia And Diabetic Retinopathy Risk
January 21st, 2010 
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No Comments »Weight Loss and Macular Degeneration Disease
January 18th, 2010 admin New research out of Australia shows that those who lose weight, especially if they’re obese, can cut the risk of developing age related macular degeneration disease (also known as AMD), the number one cause of severe vision loss among older people.Long associated with getting older, this mostly silent disease gradually, without pain, destroys the sharp, [...]
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January 12th, 2010 admin By 2020, as many as 7.5 million people over 65 years of age may suffer from vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).This grim scenario comes from Drs. Gisele Soubrane of the Clinique Ophthalmologique Universitaire de Creteil in France, and Neil M. Bressler of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine [...]
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