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Late-Stage AMD Patients Needed: Study Underway to Evaluate a New-Generation Implantable Miniature Telescope

Implantable Miniature Telescope next to a pencil eraser for size comparison. The device is similar in height to the eraser, though taking up less area.

In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a novel device from Samsara Vision called the Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT). The device magnifies what a person with late-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) sees in “straight-ahead” central vision. Specifically, the IMT projects an image onto undamaged retina sections, enabling a person to recognize and […]

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Unexpected Turns Led Russell Shaffer to a Rewarding, Executive-Level Career

Russell Shaffer is the first to admit that his career has taken a lot of twists and turns, many of them unexpected and unconventional. But it certainly led him in the right direction because today he’s Executive Vice President of Strategy & Programs at Disability:IN. The organization is “the leading nonprofit resource for business disability […]

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An Authentic Wedding Day 

Editor’s note: Addie Tighe provides a guest blog about her wedding day, sharing her challenge and eventual embrace of her eye condition, albinism. My wedding day was everything I dreamed it would be. It was a day full of friends, family, food, and fun. My husband and I could not have imagined a better day; […]

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Finding His Focus: Brysen’s Vision, Voice, and Victory

Born with autosomal dominant optic atrophy – a progressive, rare eye disease resulting in fraying optic nerves – Brysen has difficulty seeing things at a distance. Even with his glasses on, he needs to sit in the front of the classroom at school, and he’s had to ask the teacher to use only black pens […]

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The Job I Never Applied For

Editor’s Note: The following reflection of Tyson Ernst has been reprinted with permission from the ACB Voices blog, October 18, 2022. If you pay any attention to the news, you will inevitably hear unemployment is at a 50-year low. I have, as a result of feeling left out of the traditional employment market, decided to […]

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