Sentences with phrase «suffer from macular degeneration»

The 89 - year - old evangelical theologian has been suffering from macular degeneration — a condition that results in blindness — in his left eye for over a decade.

Judi Dench has hit back at reports that she's going blind after admitting that she is suffering from macular degeneration and insists the rumours have been «overblown».

James Bond star Dame Judi Dench has revealed that she is suffering from macular degeneration, a condition which can lead to blindness.

She seems to be doing well, though she suffers from macular degeneration and has to have somebody read scripts to her.

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Researchers have found that a diet enriched with omega - 3 helps repair and prevent retinal damage in mice, a discovery with potential for preventing blindness in premature infants and adults suffering from age - related macular degeneration.

The numbers may get worse as the population ages: Morrison notes that 8 percent of U.K. residents over the age of 65 suffer from age - related macular degeneration.

Those suffering from advanced stages of macular degeneration may by the end of this year be able to halt and even reverse vision loss caused by the age - related eye disease.

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe plan to generate replacement retinal pigment epithelial cells from iPS cells generated from patients suffering age - related macular degeneration.

An estimated 2 million people in the United States suffer from age - related macular degeneration, with the incidence expected to rise to 3.5 million by 2030 and to 5.5 million by 2050.

Roughly 20 percent of patients with age - related macular degeneration suffer from abnormal blood vessel growth and vascular leakage, says Campochiaro, and so may be helped by this new therapy, if it proves to work in clinical trials.

Such light therapy might find applications in people who accidentally ingest methanol or who suffer from other forms of acquired blindness, such as age - related macular degeneration and glaucoma, says Janis T. Eells of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

A team led by Steven Schwartz at UCLA administered about 50,000 cells Tuesday into one eye of a volunteer suffering from Stargardt Macular Dystrophy, a progressive form of blindness that usually begins in childhood, and another with Dry Age - Related Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, Advanced Cell Technology, which is sponsoring the study, announced Thursday.

The Argus II will help people blinded by the rare hereditary disease retinitis pigmentosa or seniors suffering from severe macular degeneration.

They were financed by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company with laboratories in Marlborough, Massachusetts, that recently won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the treatment in 24 patients suffering from either dry advanced macular degeneration, or a juvenile form of the disease known as Stargardt's.

As the name suggests, age - related macular degeneration (AMD) is most common in people over 60, and more people are suffering from AMD as the population ages.

Nearly 10 million Americans suffer from some form of macular degeneration.

Nearly 2 million people in the United States suffer from vision loss related to macular degeneration, a deterioration of the retina that is often associated with age, according to Dr. Sherri Nordstrom Stastny, Ph.D., LRD, and Julie Garden - Robinson, Ph.D., LRD, of North Dakota State University.

People who get enough vitamin D, or have vitamin D deficiency, are less likely to suffer from age - related macular degeneration, according to a study that appeared in the Archives of Ophthalmology.

This video correctly covers the fact that patients who eat a healthy diet are much less likely to suffer severe vision loss from Macular Degeneration (ARMD).

Thanks to Lori Campbell for also posting to the Senior - L list a report from a nurse in Tennessee: «I had a patient last week who is in her eighties, suffers from several disorders and has lost most of her vision to macular degeneration.