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...Harvard men's basketball team suffered a serious blow this weekend when it discovered that junior Dan Clemente, the team's leading scorer, is out for the season with a detached retina in his right...
Playing its first game of the year without star junior forward and leading scorer Dan Clemente--who is out for the season with a detached retina in his right eye--the Crimson (3-4) could muster no consistency on offense, falling to the Red Raiders (3-5) 76-49 at Lavietes Pavilion...
...still remembers the day in the mid-1980s when her heart broke. She was sitting across the dining-room table from Dorothy Coppens, her vibrant 85-year-old mother, who had just been found to be suffering from macular degeneration, an incurable deterioration of the central portion of the retina that is the leading cause of blindness in people 60 and older. "Your face is just a brown smear," Coppens told her daughter. "I guess I'll never see your face again...
...knows what causes macular degeneration. In 90% of the cases involving older people, the retina wears thin and abnormal deposits called drusen start to appear. This is the so-called dry form of the disease, in which vision deteriorates slowly, if at all. Still, it should be checked periodically since complications can occur...
...body. The drug concentrates wherever new blood vessels are being formed. But it doesn't start destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have to stay out of the sun for 24 to 48 hours after treatment to avoid sunburn...