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New test aims to save eyesight - ABC news

06/11/2008

 

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   By Dr. Jay Adlersberg

WARWICK, R.I. (WABC) -- Macular degeneration is the number one reason senior citizens lose their eyesight. The disease creeps up slowly -- and many people don't spot the warning signs soon enough. Now, a new computerized test keeps people out of the dark. Slowly, over the past several years, macular degeneration wiped away vision in Axel Johnson's right eye."I didn't even realize that I had this, you know -- that

 

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