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Press Releases

• New Treatment Found to Reduce Vision Loss from Central Retinal Vein Occlusion, Eye injections of corticosteroid medication may improve patients' vision 09/14/09
• Laser Treatment for Vision Loss from Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion is Safer than Corticosteroid Injections and Equally Effective 09/14/09
• Gene Therapy One Year Later: Patients Healthy and Maintain Early Visual Improvement 08/12/09
• National Advisory Eye Council Welcomes Four New Members 08/03/09
• New Online Features Translate Vision Science to Everyday Life 05/18/09
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News Briefs

• Recognition and thanks to M. Velma Dobson — Long time NEI Grantee 8/14/09
• Summer Experiences for Students and Teachers! 6/08/09
• Public Comment: NIH Stem Cell Guidelines 4/27/09
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Clinical Alerts for Professionals

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Meetings

• Use of Patient-reported Outcomes in Medical Product Development
• Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group Workshop
• Vision Experts and Federal Officials to Discuss Common Eye
  Diseases and Ways to Hasten Development of New Therapies
• Fourth U.S. Symposium on Ocular Epidemiology
• National Advisory Eye Council Future Meetings
• The First International Symposium on Translational
  Clinical Research for Inherited and Orphan Retinal Diseases
• NEI Symposium: AMD and Complement Factor H

Special Events

• Sayer Vision Research Lecture and Award
• Healthy Vision Month
• Healthy Vision Community Awards

Congressional Justification

• FY 2010
• FY 2009
• FY 2008
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Congressional Hearings

• Fiscal Year 2010 Budget Request
• Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request
• FY2008 Theme Hearing--A New Vision for Medical Research
• NEI FY2008 Budget Request
• NEI FY2007 Budget Request
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Statements and Reports on Vision

• NEI Investment in RPE65-LCA Research Continues to Produce Promising Results 10/26/09
• Statement from Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, on World Sight Day, Oct. 8, 2009 10/08/09
• Statement by NEI Director on the Nomination of Dr. Francis Collins to NIH Director 7/14/09
• World Glaucoma Day 2009 3/06/09
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