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The Eyes Still Have It: Finding Cures For Diseases that Blind Remains Top Focus for Investors, Entrepreneurs

 
• By Tom Salemi

Over the past few years's there's been no shortage of venture capital investments in companies developing potential treatments for diseases of the eye. Still, investors continue to find entrepreneurs with innovative new approaches to treat age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and other vision-imparing diseases.

One of the hottest trends in health care investing is as obvious as the eyes on your face. Eye diseases, some of the more disabling maladies affecting aging baby boomers today, continue to draw the attention of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, including those who have already had success in the field.

But the far-ranging interest in finding cures for crippling diseases like age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and glaucoma (as well as...

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