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Impact of vision impairment outlined in new fact sheet
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A fact sheet describing the impact that visual impairment and eye disease has on patients was released last month by two research groups.
The fact sheet, titled “Vision and Blindness,” was launched at an event in Washington, at which Senator Jim Jeffords and Neil Bressler, MD, discussed the impact vision impairment and eye disease have on patients. The event was sponsored by the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research and Research!America, according to a joint press release from the two research groups.
A recent study by Dr. Bressler found that patients with advanced stages of age-related macular degeneration equate their disease to symptomatic HIV or chronic renal failure.
“This is an important finding,” Dr. Bressler said in the press release. “We must have a strong, continuing federal commitment to all laboratory and clinical aspects of eye and vision research within the [National Eye Institute] to reduce the magnitude of blindness in this country and around the world.”
The new fact sheet is available on both Research!America’s Web site (http://www.researchamerica.org/publications/ra-vision.pdf ) and the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research’s Web site (http://www.eyeresearch.org/RA_Vision9c.pdf ).