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EYE HEALTH VIDEOS

Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC) has partnered with Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) to produce a series of videos about vision health and a variety of eye diseases, hosted by Dr. Ana Juricic. Dr. Ana...

LOOKING INTO THE GENETICS OF INHERITED RETINAL DISEASES WITH DR. ROB KOENEKOOP

Meet the Expert: Dr. Robert Koenekoop is a Montreal-based clinician-scientist, meaning he is both a medical doctor, trained in Ophthalmology and also does research about inherited retinal diseases (IRDs). He’s also a...

11 YEARS IN THE MAKING: SUPREME COURT OF CANADA UPHOLDS GENETIC NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT (GNDA)

In the past decades, genetic testing has played a growing role in the diagnosis of inherited eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome and Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Not only can a...

HOW FBC’S HEALTH INFORMATION LINE SUPPORTS YOU: Q&A WITH HEALTH INFORMATION OFFICER SHARI SHAW

Vision health information can be hard to navigate. Whether you or someone you know has been newly diagnosed with an eye disease, or have been living with an eye disease and are...

RESEARCH NEWS

September 2025 September is Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Awareness Month! Once again, we have compiled IRD research discoveries from 2025. July 2025 GLP-1 drugs (e.g. Ozempic) for diabetes linked to increased risk...

IMPROVING AMD TREATMENTS BY STUDYING CELL MOVEMENT

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss in people over the age of 50, affecting approximately 1.4 million Canadians. There are two kinds of AMD: dry AMD which...