In Canada, someone is diagnosed with diabetes every three minutes. A diabetes diagnosis holds many implications for a person: it impacts a person’s blood sugar levels, their diet, and their daily activities….

Fighting Blindness Canada is excited to announce that Canadians are one step closer to being able to access voretigene neparvovec (Luxturna), the first gene therapy for an inherited retinal disease. As of…

Fighting Blindness Canada is pleased to announce that the team of Dr. David Gamm (University of Wisconsin) and Dr. William Beltran (University of Pennsylvania) have been awarded $725,000 to continue their ground-breaking…

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss in working-age adults in Canada. This is shocking because vision loss is often preventable if the eye disease is caught early and treated….

Our inaugural vision research competition, ‘Eye on the Cure presented by FYidoctors’, premiered on Saturday November 13th, 2021. In front of our three esteemed judges – Dr. Al Ulsifer, Dr. Michel Cayouette,…

For many of us, time seemed to have stood still during the pandemic with staggering lockdowns across the country, but when it comes to vision loss, there is no such thing as…