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Article: Technology Provides Earliest Detection and Offers Best Opportunity to Save Vision.(GDx Access to diagnose glaucoma)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- February 12, 2001
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2001 FEB 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- On December 21, 2000, then-president Clinton signed legislation calling for the first glaucoma detection benefit under Medicare in the U.S.
This bill - part of a blindness prevention benefit (H.R.4577) - was a result of a three-year effort led by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).
Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the United States. Approximately three million Americans have glaucoma, but almost half are unaware that they have this devastating disease. While there is no cure for glaucoma, the disease can be managed through early diagnosis and treatment.
The AAO also ...