Under his leadership, RPB channeled hundreds of millions of dollars to support research into all blinding diseases at medical institutions throughout the U.S.

More than 70 scientists at LEI use a range of technologies to develop treatments for blinding diseases, including gene therapy and telemedicine.

This potentially blinding disease remains endemic in the poorest regions of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and in some parts of Latin America and Australia.

"It is a potentially blinding disease and the availability of new treatment options is important."

Unicef sent Bubley to the Draa Valley in Morocco in 1953 to photograph a medical mission to eliminate trachoma, an infectious blinding disease.

The development of Xalatan brought a fundamental change to the treatment of this blinding disease.

SCIENTISTS said yesterday that they had located a gene that causes one form of a blinding disease, a potential step toward finding treatment for the condition, which afflicts 100,000 Americans.

If you had the blinding disease caused by the black fly, yes, I might wash that away with medications.

Years ago, Helen Harris, then a housewife, painter, and young mother, learned that she was slowly going blind from the degenerative blinding disease, retinitis pigmentosa.

A smaller percentage will get a painful, blinding disease called ophthalmic zoster.