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Title
Macular Degeneration Support
Description
Macular Degeneration Support is a world-wide non-profit public service organization founded by retired educator Dan Roberts. Its mission since 1995 has been to provide information and support for people who are affected by macular degeneration and similar retinal diseases. Known more simply as MD Support, it is based on the Internet and also offers a public awareness program designed to reach people who are without Internet access. The founder and most of the organization's volunteers are visually-impaired themselves. Their work is supported and guided by a 12-member advisory board made up of leading professionals in the field.
The organization's web site receives nearly 3 million hits annually. The site contains in excess of 650 pages, including over 1,600 links to agencies and organizations for the blind, state agencies, vision centers, and dealers in low vision devices, audio books, and large-print reading materials. Also on the site is a complete low vision bookstore, an informational library with more than 100 articles written for the layperson, a comprehensive glossary of ophthalmologic terms, educational photo essays, and an Internet portal to 25 other MD-related organizations. In addition, MD Support hosts the Low Vision Web Ring, an email discussion group (MDList), and an Internet message board (MD Forum).
MDList includes more than 350 patients, family members, and doctors worldwide, all of whom share email messages about latest research, current treatments, and solutions to the challenges of daily living. More than a dozen transcripts of discussions between these subscribers and low vision professionals are available for reading on the web site, as are archives of opinions about most low vision devices and archives of personal experiences with virtually every treatment and procedure available to patients with macular disease. Finally, there is an entire section on the site dedicated to essays, poems, and personal stories by patients themselves.
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Contact
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- GRANDVIEW MO
- United States 64030-1561
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- +1.816761708
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