The traditional tea dance animated musically by Véronique Pomiès organized for the benefit of Retina France will only take place on March 1st. But already the local managers of the Retina Aveyron correspondent Daniel Cerles, helped by the Rignacois seniors’ clubs, are hard at work organizing this event.
The opportunity to remember that the year 2025 was marked by new hopes for visual health.
Research in ophthalmology is making progress and opening up concrete perspectives for people affected by vision diseases: “These innovations, whether therapeutic, technological or medicinal, mean more comfort, fewer constraints”, explain those responsible for whom “ new concrete perspectives are opening up with fewer injections, more effective treatments, new implants and innovative technologies to partially restore vision”. For patients, a real hope of preserving or regaining sight: “Gene and degenerative therapies that are still experimental offer a glimpse of a future where certain diseases that are currently incurable could be treated.”
During this meeting, national events were discussed which made it possible to approach this new year with a certain optimism for vision patients: conference on current and future treatments for AMD and the main diseases of the retina, the meeting of the rare diseases alliance which was held in December as part of the Telethon at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris for a 6 km walk in order to make rare diseases more visible, the France 3 Occitanie program in partnership with Retina France on digital accessibility.
For this year, the association intends to strengthen its impact in order to raise awareness about the prevention of eye diseases in toddlers, in particular the harm of screens, as well as in adults aged over 50: “The effectiveness of treatments depends first of all on early detection”, Daniel Cerles concluded.
