Carnegie Mellon Invests in Startup Fighting Blindness in Children
June 26, 2012 16:53 ET
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REBISCAN
CAMBRIDGE, MA--(Marketwire - Jun 26, 2012) - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has invested in REBIScan, Inc., a Massachusetts startup focusing on the detection and eradication of vision loss in...
Foundation Fighting Blindness and RetroSense Therapeutics Make Progress Toward First-Ever Clinical Trial for Optogenetic Gene Therapy Treatment
May 25, 2012 08:58 ET
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Foundation Fighting Blindness
OWINGS MILLS, Md., May 25, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After a productive meeting this week with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Foundation Fighting Blindness acknowledges a clearer path...
Organic India Pledges to Save Half a Million At-Risk Children Through Vitamin Angels
November 18, 2008 10:09 ET
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Vitamin Angels
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - November 18, 2008) - In a given day, there is an estimated 134
million children up to 5 years of age in the developing world that are
vitamin A deficient. Of those...
Junior Blind Olympics Level the Playing Field for Athletes Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
April 26, 2008 12:00 ET
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Junior Blind of America
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - April 26, 2008) - Today, hundreds of young athletes who are
blind, visually impaired or multi-disabled competed in the Junior Blind
Olympics, held at Junior Blind of...
Kat Von D Tattoos 400 People to Save 32,000 Children in 24 Hours for Vitamin Angels
January 08, 2008 12:57 ET
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Vitamin Angels
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - January 8, 2008) - Imagine getting a tattoo and saving the
lives of 80 children in the record time of three minutes.
That was the case this past December, when Kat Von...
Angels Take Flight at Natural Products Expo East
October 16, 2007 09:35 ET
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Vitamin Angels
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - October 16, 2007) - Last year, Vitamin Angels launched an
aggressive campaign to eradicate childhood blindness caused by vitamin A
deficiency (VAD) worldwide by the...
Vitamin Angels Plays Key Role in Reducing Childhood Deaths
September 20, 2007 17:16 ET
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Vitamin Angels
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - September 20, 2007) - Last week, the United Nations Children's
Fund reported that the number of worldwide deaths in children younger than
5 dropped to an estimated...