Macular Degeneration

EUNICE K. CLUCK-8-2-1919 Eunice K. Cluck, 92 passed away on April 19, 2012 in Newport Beach, Eunice was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 2, 1919. Eunice and her family lived in many parts of the country before settling in Southern California in 1970....

Colette Johnson was born with cataracts and declared blind. She underwent surgery as a child which helped slightly, but Johnson was still considered legally blind.  "Reading has always been a struggle," Johnson said. Johnson sought out help more than...

Temperatures are getting hotter, the days longer and school is almost out for  summer. WSBT is continuing its series "Mom's Summer Survival Guide," by taking a look at protecting your child's skin and eyes this summer. There are three things no one...

Una Imogene King, 89, died Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at Broadmore Senior Living of Hagerstown where she had been a resident since April 2011. Born Feb. 9, 1923, at Garfield, Md., she was the daughter of Claude Countee and Annie Hays Lewis. Imogene was...

Peter Miller was a high-powered businessman who owned several electronic security firms when he was diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration in 1999. Like so many people who lose their central vision, Miller couldn't imagine life without the...

John Schlosser has managed to fill his almost 99 years with a variety of careers and experiences. From his childhood days on a Montana ranch, to a stint in Florida building warships, to the construction of buildings in Washington, D.C., Schlosser got a...

Advanced Eye Care Optometry 2151 Ross Ave. El Centro 760-352-3505 www.stopsquinting.com  Tell us how you ended up in this line of work. At five years old I was in a car accident on La Brucherie Road and Main Street in El Centro. My eyes were damaged...

Elaine Weller knew how to stretch a dime, raising six children on a limited income. “That woman could take a dime and turn it into a dollar,” said the youngest of her children, Michelle McCarty of Hagerstown. “You know what, she was...

Edna Haines never stood more than 5 feet tall and seldom tipped the scale beyond 100 pounds, earning her the lifelong nickname of “Skeets,” an abbreviated form of the word for the tiny mosquito. Yet her enormous heart, ear-to-ear smile and...

Marylanders are extremely fortunate to have some of the nation's finest health care resources readily available within our borders. As Vincent DeMarco points out in his recent commentary ("Health exchanges benefit Md. families," Feb. 16), we also lead the...

Anetta Jackson begins most days as she ends them — reading. Fiction, nonfiction, magazines, newspapers. It doesn't matter. She always has had a love of the written word, the Hagerstown woman said. Now retired, Jackson, 68, has even more time to...

Two patients with vision problems who received injections of retinal cells made from human embryonic stem cells have seen marked improvement in their vision four months later, according to a preliminary study on the safety and efficacy of the pioneering...