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    'I went blind and feel partly to blame'

    Leonie Watson lost her sight in her 20s after ignoring doctors' advice about her diabetes for years. Here she charts her journey into blindness, and the frustration of feeling partly to blame. I became blind over the course of 12 months from late 1999 to the end of 2000. It was mostly my fault...
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    New treatment options, better hope of preventing vision loss from diabetes

    This National Diabetes Month, there is some good news for people with eye complications from diabetes. Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic...
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