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Aug 4, 2022

Ramya Amuthan is a producer and co-host of Accessible Media Inc.’s (AMI) daily lifestyle and entertainment audio program, Kelly and Company. In it, Kelly MacDonald and Ramya speak with fascinating community members…

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Jul 8, 2022

On Saturday, June 18th, Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC)-funded researcher Dr. Stephan Ong Tone swapped his white coat for a cycling jersey to raise funds for vision research at FBC’s Cycle for Sight…

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Jul 8, 2022

In June 2022 a small team from FBC attended the Retina International World Congress in beautiful Reykjavik, Iceland. We sat down with FBC Manager of Education, Morgan Ineson, and FBC youth representative,…

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Jul 8, 2022

On June 14th in the House of Commons, Hon. Judy Sgro, MP for Humber River-Black Creek, introduced Bill C-284 to establish a National Eye Care Strategy. Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) applauds this…

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Jun 7, 2022

Fighting Blindness Canada’s (FBC’s) Clinician Scientist Emerging Leader Awards (CSELA) were launched in 2017 to build the pipeline of ophthalmologists and optometrists who also do research. Clinician-scientists help translate laboratory research into…

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close-up of a DNA strand
Jun 5, 2022

Despite being approved by Health Canada in October 2020, more than 40 families across the country continue to wait for a decision on public funding of Luxturna, a sight-saving gene therapy. Luxturna…

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