Word: pigmentosa
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Wilson expects Phase I trials using AAV to begin later this year, first for the treatment of hemophilia and later for a form of muscular dystrophy, a liver metabolic disease and retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disorder. "It's kind of a new wave," he says...
...like $300 million worth of works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa, an irreversible, degenerative eye disease...
Megadoses of vitamin E, commonly thought to slow the progress of retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary form of blindness, actually make the disease worse, according to a controlled study of 600 sufferers. Only vitamin A seems to help...
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which affects 100,000 people in the U.S. and approximately 1.5 million worldwide, is caused by mutations in the identified gene, say researchers Eliot L. Berson, Chatlos professor of ophthalmology, and Thaddeus P. Dryja, associate professor of ophthalmology...