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Article: Fort Worth, Texas, drug maker Alcon seeks to prevent blindness.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 17, 2004
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By Maria M. Perotin, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 17--Her job. Her car. The morning newspaper.
One by one, Jean Russell has abandoned them all, as a chronic disease slowly has robbed her eyesight and much of her independence.
The 73-year-old Richland Hills woman has age-related macular degeneration -- a condition that leaves her peripheral vision intact but blurs whatever is right in front of her.
The disease is the leading cause of blindness among older Americans, afflicting more than 13 million people. Yet so few treatments exist that one doctor gave Russell the most dispiriting ...
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