Los Angeles, CA –?Imagine being unable to see your loved ones, watch a beautiful sunset, or read your favorite books and magazines. Vision loss and eye disease impact all of us.

The Discovery Eye Foundation, a national foundation that was founded in 1970 by Rita and Morris S Pynoos, plays a vital role in finding the causes of and cures for eye disease while helping individuals with vision loss and their families find new way to see the world.

The Discovery Eye Foundation is working to combat blindness and eye disease while serving the needs of those with impaired vision and total vision loss through corneal and retinal research at the Morris S. Pynoos Laboratories at the University of California, Irvine, and through patient advocacy and education.

The mission of The Discovery Eye Foundation is to facilitate the development of cures and improve patient care through retinal and corneal research and educational programs for those persons with eye disease. They do this by supporting cutting edge eye research and providing educational programs around the world. Sheryl Alexander, Vice President of Development at the foundation, says, ?For almost forty years Discovery Eye Foundation has been diligently working to find treatments and cures for debilitating eye diseases. Through the years we have supported thousands of patients and their families while helping them understand these diseases, resulting in a better quality of life. ?

The statistics are overwhelming. The Alliance for Aging Research and National Alliance For Eye and Vision Research stated in a September 2007 report:

  • 38 million Americans suffer from blindness, low vision, or an age-related eye disease. That number is expected to grow to around 50 million by 2020.
  • Every year, 200,000 Americans develop advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) ? one every three minutes.
  • 6.5 million Americans over the age of 65 have severe visual impairment that threatens to limit their mobility, independence, and quality of life.

Discovery Eye Foundation is also the home of National Keratoconus Foundation and the Macular Degeneration Partnership, two amazing programs that help fight eye disease. NKF promotes awareness of Keratoconus and develops education and outreach programs for patients and their families. MDP provides patients and their families with education and support through newsletters, website, support groups and education forums about this leading cause of severe vision loss in people over the age of 60. Both programs also actively support researchers in their work to find the causes and a cure for the conditions.

Eye research is conspicuously under-funded in the United States. It is for this reason that the community as a whole must partner together to address this growing issue. Discovery Eye Foundation is working to continue eye research and patient education programs.

For more information on Discovery Eye Foundation, please contact:

Maya Benyehuda
maya@ballantinespr.com
Tel: 310 454 3080
Cell: 310 699 9431
Fax: 310-943-1978
Ballantines PR
http://www.ballantinespr.com/

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