And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.

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That number is expected to double by 2030 as the aging population brings rising rates of macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases.

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The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.

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