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                    [Title] => Are you a candidate for age-related blindness?
                    [Summary] => Do you smoke? Are you suffering from hypertension? Are you always exposed to sunlight? If you answered "yes" to these questions and are over 50 years old, you’re at risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a disease that affects 30 million people worldwide.

[DatePublished] => 2002-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 151868 [Title] => 7.5-M people will go blind by 2020 due to age-related disease [Summary] => By 2020, as many as 7.5 million people over 65 years old may suffer from vision loss due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

This grim scenario comes from Drs. Gisele Soubrane of the Clinique Opthamologique Universitaire de Creteil in France, and Neil M. Bressler of the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States, in their report published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) ) )
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