{"id":129841,"date":"2016-08-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129841\/world-retina-week-in-september\/"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:06:30","slug":"world-retina-week-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/04\/world-retina-week-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"World Retina Week in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year World Retina Week will be from September 19 to 25.<\/p>\n<p>World Retina Week is observed in 40 countries to create awareness of the progress towards treatment for retinal genetic conditions through scientific research.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The remarkable progress being made in the fields of gene therapy, stem cells and artificial retinas makes the dream of treatment for as yet incurable blindness an exciting reality.<\/p>\n<p>Retinal conditions such as macular degeneration and dystrophies, retinitis pigmentosa, and other rare conditions cause loss of vision in over 40 million people worldwide and a probable 150 000 South Africans.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Clinical trials to find effective treatments are showing great promise and <a href=\"http:\/\/retinasa.org.za.winhost.wa.co.za\/?page_id=6\">Retina South Africa<\/a> is determined to bring these promising trials to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Early diagnosis is essential.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on any genetic retinal disorder visit www.retinasa.org.za.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='f8ed3d1d7286038c033fefc5d3efbb5f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future looks bright for retinal blindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":129881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,7,2],"tags":[11899,11900,1106,979,969,4784,1277,11902,2749,2727,2724,2720,11901],"class_list":["post-129841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-blind","tag-blindness","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-news","tag-local-news-2","tag-macular-degeneration-and-dystrophies","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-retina-south-africa","tag-retinal-blindness","tag-retinitis-pigmentosa","tag-world-retina-week"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["blind","blindness","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston News","local news","macular degeneration and dystrophies","Puleng Sekabate","Retina South Africa","Retinal Blindness","Retinitis Pigmentosa","World Retina Week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}