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...Harvard-led research team released a study this month demonstrating that transplanted stem cells may hold the key to fighting eye-related problems, including macular degeneration and other retinal diseases...
...retina is a thin, multi-layered membrane at the back of the eye that converts light and images into neural signals that reach the brain through the optic nerve. Macular degeneration, a disturbance of the center of the retina, is the leading cause of blindness in people over 55 years...
While I know something about the history of my parents' health--my father had prostate cancer at a relatively young age and suffered from macular degeneration and Parkinson's disease, and my mother died of lung cancer--there's plenty I don't know. What were my parents' cholesterol numbers and blood pressures? I assume I would have known if either suffered from diabetes, but I can't swear to that. And when it comes to my grandparents, whose genes I also have, I'm even more in the dark...
...well beyond their proven ability to prevent heart attacks and include such things as lowering the risk of stroke or possibly even Alzheimer's disease. Now comes word that statins may help reduce damage from the most common cause of irreversible blindness among older adults in the U.S.--adult macular degeneration...
Alcalay is now 86 years old. He has a wide face and frame and white hair that encircles his large head in a cloud-like wisp. Some years ago he had a double bypass, and the steady toll of macular degeneration over the years have made him legally blind. He reads with the aid of a scanning device that magnifies words from a page on a television monitor, each word filling up almost the entire screen...