Vision: Making Inroads in Macular Degeneration

In 2004, scientists at the National Eye Institute predicted that as the population aged, the rate of macular degeneration, an incurable eye disease with no known cause, would increase substantially. They appear to have been wrong.

Via The New York Times: Vision: Making Inroads in Macular Degeneration

There have been tremendous research efforts in treating the blinding condition of macular degeneration. Currently, there are good treatments to stabilize the wet macular degenration and the treatments of dry macular degeneration are within horizons. It is encouraging that the trend of the disease prevalence has decreased by 9% over the past decade. Healthy lifestyle, smoking cessation and blood pressure control seem to have contributed to the reversing trend.