From the March 2020 issue of UCLA Health's Healthy Years (HY)

Encouraging News About Macular Degeneration

Blindness from certain forms of this condition can be slowed and sometimes reversed. It’s also often misdiagnosed.

By JoAnn Milivojevic • February 21, 2020

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Job one if you’re diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is to immediately book an appointment with a retina specialist, according to Steven Schwartz, MD, chief of the Retina Division of the UCLA Stein Eye Institute. “At least half of the patients we see with the diagnosis of macular degeneration do not have macular degeneration, […]

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