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Biomedical Research


Researcher at the National Eye Institute (NEI) tests the peripheral and central visual fields of a patient to find areas of visual loss. The NEI has helped pioneer the use of lasers in preventing visual loss from diabetes and other eye diseases, and is testing new medicines that may he able to prevent diabetes-induced damage to the retina and other tissues.

c. 1987


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