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Date: 11/14/02
Time: 9:05:18 AM
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/774879.asp#TOPSEVERAL
COMPETING medicines are in development, all based on similar principles. They are designed to stop the two top causes of adult blindness — the “wet” form of macular degeneration, which affects the elderly, and diabetic retinopathy, the biggest source of blindness in working-age people. Vision loss seems halted for most if they take the drugs soon after their symptoms begin. Some experience stunning reversals of what would have been inevitable blindness. “I’m telling you, it’s miraculous,” says Eileen Russell. Russell, 76, of Worcester, lost vision in her right eye four years ago. In May, her left eye went bad, too, and she was declared legally blind. But after four injections of one of the drugs her left eye is 20-25. She drives and reads and is thinking about returning to work as a nurse.
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