Eye Health Videos
Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) has partnered with Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) to produce a series of videos about vision health and a variety of eye diseases, hosted by Dr. Ana Juricic. Dr. Ana…
Looking into the genetics of inherited retinal diseases with Dr. Rob Koenekoop
Meet the Expert: Dr. Robert Koenekoop is a Montreal-based clinician-scientist, meaning he is both a medical doctor, trained in Ophthalmology and also does research about inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). He’s also a…
11 years in the making: Supreme Court of Canada upholds Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNDA)
In the past decades, genetic testing has played a growing role in the diagnosis of inherited eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome and Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Not only can a…
How FBC’s Health Information Line supports you: Q&A with Health Information Officer Shari Shaw
Vision health information can be hard to navigate. Whether you or someone you know has been newly diagnosed with an eye disease, or have been living with an eye disease and are…
Research News
July 2024 First patients treated in XLRP gene therapy trial Beacon Therapeutics, has announced that they have treated the first patients in their Phase 2/3 VISTA trial for a gene therapy for…
Improving AMD Treatments by Studying Cell Movement
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in people over the age of 50, affecting approximately 1.4 million Canadians. There are two kinds of AMD: dry AMD which…
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