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Keeping an Eye on Vision Woes

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Laser surgery is being used to help control diabetic retinopathy, a progressive eye disease that could lead to blindness. Megan Kelty reports.

Diabetic retinopathy is a progressive eye disease that affects longtime diabetics. Symptoms can range from blurred vision to sudden blindness.

There is no cure, but the disease can be controlled through regulation of sugar intake and laser surgery.

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