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PROGRAM ON AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION
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Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
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August 1, 2005
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Copyright informationCopyright American Foundation for the Blind, Inc. Aug 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Continuing Education Group recently launched its latest national awareness initiative on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with Johanna Seddon, director of the Epidemiology Unit at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School. As part of the group's Doctor-to-Doctor campaign, complimentary DVDs of the television program, "Preventing and Treating Both Late Stage Wet and Dry Forms of AMD," which was originally released on the Health & Family Network, are being made available to physicians. Designed as an ...
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