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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.

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

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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