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Canine companions: OccuPaws puts guide dogs in home with visually ...  -  25 Mar 2008
The Capital Times,Meadowcroft has retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that causes damage to the retina. She's lost all peripheral vision, and less than 5 degrees of her

BU sorority hosts egg hunt for ISBVI students  -  25 Mar 2008
Dawgnet,...she really became interested in working at the ISBVI after witnessing many of her family members deal with a condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP).

Easter for Lily: A Frankenmuth minister and his family adopt an ...  -  Mar 23, 2008
MLive.com,Joel Kaiser inherited the degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa. "I don't read regular print, and my vision will continue to deteriorate," he said,

New Hope For Regenerating Damaged Human Retina: Sleeping Stem ...  -  Mar 18, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The team's next step will be to test this process in animals that have been bred to have diseases that mimic macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.

War in the Pacific: Veteran Landsverk lost his sight, but he still ...  -  Mar 24, 2008
Portage Daily Register,Erling Landsverk, 81, lost his eyesight in 1995 from macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The World War II veteran is a classical guitar player

Eye on the future  -  Mar 7, 2008
Hindustan Times,But then Retinitis Pigmentosa set in completely and she lost her vision. Not one to sit at home, and weep Guneet accepted the setback and got on with her

Young woman presents with decreasing vision  -  Mar 4, 2008
OSN SuperSite (subscription),Only a few causes of CME may not cause leakage on fluorescein angiogram (FA), and these include some types of retinitis pigmentosa, X-linked retinoschisis,

Wireless Retinal Implant Developed  -  Mar 12, 2008
Medgadget.com,About 3 million people worldwide suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, making this one of the leading causes for blindness. In retinitis pigmentosa patients a

Dubai's most popular polo event was back for the fourth year ...  -  Mar 9, 2008
AME Info,All money raised from the event will go to Foresight to help find a cure for blindness caused by hereditary diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Jim Knipfel, Author  -  Mar 24, 2008
Gothamist,Knipfel has a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which is a degenerative disease that leads to blindness. He's been writing a weekly column, Slackjaw,

Vision Media Television Segment on "Implantation: Rebuilding the Body"  -  Mar 20, 2008
PR.com (press release),...wound care that is rebuilding the body, as well as retinal stimulus for people who suffer from retinitis pigmentosa, among other procedures.

Local man has hopes for Paterson as governor  -  Mar 12, 2008
Poughkeepsie Journal,He said he has faced years of discrimination because of suffering from a genetic eye disorder — retinitis pigmentosa. Malone’s desire is for Paterson to use

Opening society's eyes  -  Mar 23, 2008
Elmira Star-Gazette,She suffers with a genetic disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which is slowly deteriorating her retina. She's was diagnosed with the disease at age 12.

Run With Me  -  Mar 23, 2008
Khaleej Times,...“I started fundraising to help research into a cure for the disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, which has made me lose my sight... Dave is also blind from the

Blind man to run 7 marathons in 7 days  -  Mar 5, 2008
Khaleej Times,...“I started fundraising to help research into a cure for the disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, which has made me lose my sight, by running the Dubai and London

USC expands artificial retina research  -  Mar 5, 2008
Daily Trojan Online,...in order to help individuals suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa - a collection of genetic eye conditions resulting from problems with the retina.

Artificial Retinal Implant Project Grows  -  Mar 17, 2008
LA Downtown News Online,The Argus II is the second generation of an electronic retinal implant designed for the treatment of blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa, a group of

Dining in the Dark gala to benefit Foundation Fighting Blindness  -  Mar 19, 2008
Dallas Morning News,...touch and sound, and gives sighted people insight into the daily difficulties of being blind, says Mr. Rager, who has retinitis pigmentosa.

Mainstay at Westchester Train Station Falls on Tracks and Is Killed  -  Mar 18, 2008
New York Times,She said her father, Mr. Marafito, suffered from retinitis pigmentosa, causing him to gradually lose his eyesight. Her mother lost her sight after surgery

Like Dogs, Like Humans? Day Blindness In The Wirehaired Dachshund  -  Mar 16, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The most common form of retinal degeneration in people is that collectively called retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which is caused by an initial regression of

Student profile: Mohamed AbdelMagid  -  Mar 19, 2008
WSU Winonan,When AbdelMagid was about seven years old, his doctor in his home country of Sudan told him he had a type of blindness called retinitis pigmentosa and would

Seeing things clearly  -  Feb 28, 2008
The Daily Advertiser,Carriere has glaucoma, a disease that blurs the vision, and retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that destroys the retina, causing blind spots in

My baby, right or wrong  -  Mar 9, 2008
Guardian,...condition that causes partial deafness from birth and the gradual loss of sight in adulthood due to an eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.

Eyes on prize: Visionary device gives hope  -  Mar 9, 2008
Boston Herald,Some 1.6 million people worldwide have retinitis pigmentosa, the leading cause of inherited blindness in the world. More than 20 years along,

High-tech retinal implant: How it works, how it’s evolved  -  Mar 8, 2008
Boston Herald,Patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa - two of the leading causes of inherited blindness - have lost their vision

Support Groups: Disabilities  -  Mar 17, 2008
Modesto Bee,VISUALLY IMPAIRED SUPPORT: For people with macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa, their friends and families. Meets from 2-4 pm the second Saturday

Woman overcomes blindness through education, enthusiasm  -  Feb 28, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune,In 1995, Cody was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a category of inherited diseases that cause retinal degeneration, and she began losing her eyesight.

Guide dog gives new life  -  Mar 14, 2008
Frederick News Post (subscription),Deaf from birth, he developed retinitis pigmentosa as a child, which causes night blindness and loss of peripheral vision. Usher syndrome is a recessive

Bionic Eye Could Restore Sight to the Blind  -  Mar 12, 2008
InventorspotThe device could also help individuals suffering from retinitis pigmentosa (a genetic condition), but it would not work for patients with glaucoma.

British Business community helps local charities with AED36,000 ...  -  Mar 6, 2008
ArabianBusiness.com (press release),...to help find a cure for blindness caused by diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) through supporting locally based and international research.

Back in the race  -  Mar 6, 2008
Mail Tribune,As the hereditary disease retinitis pigmentosa continued to claim his sight, Moore came to terms with forfeiting the freedom of driving a car.

Fighting the good fights  -  Mar 4, 2008
Shrewsbury Chronicle,...through a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which will eventually leave him totally blind…and all while fighting breast cancer.

Cuba, to the rescue..!!!  -  Mar 4, 2008
Canada NewsWire (press release),Similarly, Mrs Anne Lortie, a young mother informed that she would go blind within two years as she had retinitis pigmentosa. The only help offered was to

News From The Journal Of Clinical Investigation Online Early March ...  -  Mar 4, 2008
Medical News Today (press release),Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary disease that often results in complete loss of sight as a result of the progressive degeneration of the retina of

LHS graduate wins fellowship at Leadership Institute in Washington  -  Mar 4, 2008
MyWestTexas.com,As a child, he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, which causes blindness. A graduate student in political science at Sul Ross State University in

Sculptor's work offers others a glimpse into what she's seeing  -  Mar 2, 2008
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette,...differently from most people because her eyesight is narrowed to tunnel vision by an inherited and irreversible disorder called retinitis pigmentosa.

The Eyes Have It  -  Mar 1, 2008
New Hampshire Magazine,He states that in the next 20 years we will have identified the genes that are responsible for genetic eye diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa,

Childhood blindness study under way  -  Feb 27, 2008
Gulf Breeze News,LCA2 affects about 2000 people in the United States and is one of several incurable forms of blindness collectively known as retinitis pigmentosa,

Socially conscious bands take action  -  Feb 27, 2008
Daily Trojan Online,It is the emotion most would assume plagued Posen when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a 19-year-old film student at Cal State Northridge.

Alternative Media Center offers resources to students with ...  -  Feb 26, 2008
The Spartan Daily,..."I had a friend that was disabled that didn't know about it," she said, adding that he graduated last year and had retinitis pigmentosa, which is retinal

On Second Sight  -  Feb 26, 2008
The Daily Advertiser,..."I was really shaking," said Boyle, who was diagnosed at the age of 2 with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease of the eye that gradually

Blindness advocacy unites Cal State student, Laura Bush  -  Feb 26, 2008
North County Times,Cody said Monday that when she began losing her peripheral vision nine years ago, doctors told her that she carried the gene for retinitis pigmentosa,

‘Pacemaker for the eyes'  -  Feb 25, 2008
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Glaucoma, wet and dry eye macular degeneration, and retinitis pigmentosa, which severely reduce vision or cause blindness, have become more prevalent in the

First class honour for guide dog Warwick  -  14 Feb 2008
ic Coventry,Eileen, aged 58, has retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, a hereditary condition which means she only has 10 per cent vision in one eye and can only see light and

Different point of view pays off for this wrestler  -  14 Feb 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal,Mullins suffers from retinitis pigmentosa and said each member of the team has a different impairment, from McCoy's partial blindness to glaucoma to

A blind date on the Harbour Bridge  -  14 Feb 2008
Easier (press release),Both Sue (45) and Bruce (47) have a hereditary degenerative eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. They are now legally blind and have never ‘laid eyes’

Folks, I'm not pretending to be blind  -  14 Feb 2008
Anchorage Daily News (subscription),I experience a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. (Contemporary parlance holds we use the word "experience" rather than "suffer from," to

Chainsaw sculptor still carves despite vision impairment  -  Feb 10, 2008
Pocono Record,Hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa (RP) rarely occur together. People who have both are diagnosed with Usher's Syndrome.

Vegas gaming companies look to Massachusetts opportunities  -  Feb 11, 2008
Scripps News,Without irony, the resort developer, whose vision suffers from the deteriorating effects of retinitis pigmentosa, said he'd be right at home in Revere.

A Famous Hallucination: Ahab's Phantom Leg  -  Jan 30, 2008
NPRThese phantom images are often "seen" by people with severe visual impairments caused by macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa.

A Visionary Approach to Eye Damage Repair  -  Jan 30, 2008
Scientific AmericanAmong the disorders that Balasubramanian has targeted is retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited diseases that cause degeneration of the retina (in the

StemCells to work with Casey Eye Institute on blindness  -  Jan 24, 2008
Bizjournals.com,Age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa are the most common forms of retinal degeneration, which is a leading cause of blindness.

StemCells, Inc. Enters Research Collaboration with Casey Eye Institute  -  Jan 24, 2008
Business Wire (press release),The most common forms of retinal degeneration are age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. In the United States, age-related macular

Lonegan positioned as GOP leader  -  Feb 12, 2008
Cherry Hill Courier Post,Lonegan has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease, though he prefers not to discuss it. "Steve is remarkable fellow," Merkt said.

Brian LeClerc: Feeling the Music  -  Feb 13, 2008
Hamptons.com,At five, he, and later his younger brother, were diagnosed with a genetic degenerative eye disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). He hadn’t thought about it

Domestic cat genome sequenced  -  Jan 22, 2008
American Veterinary Medical Association,Cinnamon's pedigree, for example, carries a genetic mutation that causes retinitis pigmentosa. In humans, retinitis pigmentosa affects 1 in 3500 Americans.

Ted Nail's story is that of blind ambition  -  Jan 30, 2008
Chanticleer (subscription),He lost his sight gradually due to the fact his parents carry a specific gene that causes Retinitis pigmentosa. He has an older sister who is afflicted with

Absher doesn't fear the inevitable  -  Jan 29, 2008
The Mountain Press,Dakota Absher was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a child. It's an inherited, degenerative eye disease. People with the disease experience

Blind runner an inspiration at Dubai Marathon  -  Jan 20, 2008
XPRESS,Katy was diagnosed at the age of 20 with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative condition of the retina. She's a major force behind Foresight and their team

Fading vision doesn't diminish cyclist's passion  -  Feb 8, 2008
Austin 360 (subscription),Ron Burzese, who has retinitis pigmentosa, is hoping to win a spot on the US National Paralympic Cycling Team. He made the team in 2003 and 2004.

Blind man's despair as his home care is axed  -  Jan 29, 2008
Portsmouth News,Mr Whyley has suffered from deteriorating eyesight since he was 10 years old – the result of a hereditary condition called retinitis pigmentosa – and is

Company Banking On 'Pacemaker For The Eye'  -  Feb 11, 2008
Kentucky Post,Glaucoma, wet and dry eye macular degeneration, and retinitis pigmentosa, which severely reduce vision or cause blindness, have become more prevalent in the

Dynamic duo making waves on the indoor rowing scene  -  Feb 11, 2008
Edinburgh Evening News,Dalkeith man John Howie, 63, has been blind from an early age since developing the progressive eye disorder retinitis pigmentosa before he reached his teens

Tucson entrepreneur starts company that pays people to advertise ...  -  Feb 8, 2008
Inside Tucson Business,He still lives with the retinitis pigmentosa in his eyes. Knowing that his sight can someday fail him completely, Minteu, now 22, decided he couldn’t go the

Feeling Creative: Volunteers, visually impaired team up at the ...  -  Feb 7, 2008
Winston-Salem Journal,Flynt is also in the class; he is slowly going blind from a hereditary disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Warren Moyer, the ceramics instructor at

Eye implant study gets funding help  -  Jan 26, 2008
Detroit Free Press,Institutes of Health to continue research to develop a retinal implant for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration.

Scottsdale Healthcare offers low-cost heart, stroke tests  -  Jan 21, 2008
Arizona Republic,Learn about research to find treatments and cures for retinal degenerative diseases such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa.

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: Dinner puts blindness into full view  -  Feb 6, 2008
Daily Pilot,...treat and hopefully, find a cure for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and other degenerative retinal diseases.

TheSubway.com: Stock Market Alerts New Investor Forum Speak with ...  -  Feb 5, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...for the treatment of retinal degenerative diseases such as Retinitis Pigmentosa, Stargardt's disease, and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

White Cane Week kicks off in city  -  Feb 5, 2008
Standard Freeholder,Villeneuve-Labelle was born with reversed retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a hereditary condition that causes gradual vision loss. Since being diagnosed 16 years

DNA Findings Will Revolutionize Cat Health  -  Jan 31, 2008
WIS,For example, cats may inherit a genetic mutation that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can lead to blindness in both people and

Seeing the light  -  Jan 29, 2008
The Engineer,The technique could enable sufferers of retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy to see. In the advanced stages,

Puppies in training for top job  -  Jan 28, 2008
Auckland stuff.co.nz,The 25-year-old has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that results in a slow loss of central vision. Nadia feels there is a lack of understanding about

Perfect Family Fit: Blind Man Adopts Blind 2-Year-Old  -  Jan 24, 2008
KAIT,He has retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic degenerative eye disease. "It was something we defiantly considered when we filled out the paperwork and we did our

Support Groups: Disabilites  -  Jan 21, 2008
Modesto Bee,VISUALLY IMPAIRED SUPPORT: For people with macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa, their friends and families. Meets from 2-4 pm the second Saturday

Neurotech makes plans for new plant  -  Jan 18, 2008
Providence Business News,Neurotech is currently conducting two Phase II/III clinical trials for the treatment of visual loss associated with retinitis pigmentosa, as well as a Phase

Fidelco Guide Dogs a 'Blessing' to Many  -  Jan 18, 2008
Greenwich Citizen,He was diagnosed 14 years ago with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetic degenerative vision condition that commonly is known as "tunnel vision.

Room to grow in Cumberland  -  Jan 15, 2008
Providence Journal,Relying in part on research from Brown University, Neurotech scientists engineer human retinal cells to produce proteins to treat retinitis pigmentosa and

Florida Actor Encourages Early Education for Change in Acceptance ...  -  Jan 15, 2008
American Chronicle,At the age of 17, he was diagnosed during a routine exam with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), which is a degenerative disease that causes a progressive loss of

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