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New Treatments & Clinical Trials

Everything You Need To Know About Clinical Trials

What is a clinical trial? Clinical trials are experiments that test whether a new intervention, such as a drug or surgery, will work in people. The main goal of clinical trials is…

Are Clinical Trials Safe for Children?

Does your child have an inherited eye disease? If you had the chance, would you enrol her or him in a clinical trial that was testing a new gene therapy or stem…

Clinical Trial launched to test first of its kind drug for AMD and DME

Fighting Blindness Canada funded researcher Dr. Sachdev Sidhu (University of Waterloo) has developed a novel antibody therapy that will now be tested in a Phase 1/2 human clinical trial (Clinical Trial ID:…

Clinical Trial Advances for IRD, AMD and glaucoma

From April 23-27, Fighting Blindness Canada attended one of the largest vision research conferences in the world: the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). It was illuminating to learn about…

NAC Attack: A Phase III clinical trial to test an oral therapy for retinitis pigmentosa

Starting in 2023, a new clinical trial called NAC Attack will be launched to test an oral medication, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), as a potential therapy for patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). NAC Attack…

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