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  Carotenoids boost vision in clinical trial

  Study participants with early-stage dry AMD show improved contrast sensitivity after taking antioxidant supplements

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 06 Nov 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research AMD Health
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  AMD supplements “low priority” for NHS funding

  Primary care practitioners could be advised against prescribing lutein and antioxidants to new patients
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 01 Nov 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Clinical and regulatory AMD NHS Primary care
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  AMD centre opens

  Boost in capacity to assess and treat patients following partnership between Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Bayer

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 31 Oct 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Health services AMD Hospital optometrists Sight impairment
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  Signs of AMD in the blood

  Biomarkers in human blood plasma could be used to identify individuals at risk of age-related macular degeneration

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 24 Oct 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research AMD Sight impairment Treatment
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  Fact or fiction?

  Professor Chris Hammond discusses the evidence around blue light

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 18 Oct 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research AMD Myopia Multiple
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  Researchers create stem cell model of macular degeneration

  Using human stem cells to create a model of the disease could aid the development of new treatments
  

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 09 Oct 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research Stem cells AMD Treatment
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  £430,000 in grants for eye health research

  Recipients of Bayer’s 2017 Global Ophthalmology Awards Programme have been announced

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 28 Sep 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Awards Universities Retina AMD Research
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  Compound reduces severity of wet AMD

  Researchers protect mice from developing abnormal blood vessels

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 05 Sep 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Sight impairment AMD Retina Research
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  Cost savings of £3000 per patient from public funding of AMD supplements

  A British Journal of Ophthalmology study recommends that the NHS fund a daily zinc and antioxidant supplement for patients who have wet AMD in one eye

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 25 Aug 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research AMD Health NHS
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  An eye on freckles

  New research suggests that dark spots on the iris are caused by sun exposure

  • OT news and features
  • Pulished 14 Aug 2017
  • Selina Powell

  Research Sight impairment Health Cataracts AMD