Talking 'Bout Degeneration

Send a text After a bit of a gap, Angela is back with a brief bonus episode - one year after she started treatment - and she has some news from Optegra. They are rolling out their treatment to other places in the UK and they are hosting their first every patient webinar on August 19th at 6.30 pm British Summer Time to explain red light therapy and answer any questions you may have. You can registe...

Send a text In this final episode of the series, Angela starts round two of red light therapy and finds out if round one has made a difference. She also finds out if there have been any developments in other areas during series 1 and discovers that there is someone trying to replace eye injections with eye drops For information about red light therapy in the UK and where it will be offered next, c...

Send a text It has been a long wait since episode 5 was  released but Angela got some good news which she wanted to share before publishing episode 6 - so here it is! For information about red light therapy in the UK and where it will be offered next, contact Optegra: https://www.optegra.com/dry-amd-treatment/ Executive producer is Vince Hunt http://www.vincenthunt.co.uk/ Music performed by Mike U...

Send a text In her quest for treatments for macular degeneration, Angela Young, former BBC News Editor who has the disease, goes to PBM 24, the conference on photobiomodulation. She interviews Dr Clark Tedford, the CEO of Lumithera, which makes the Valeda red light system. Join her at the Park Plaza Hotel in London! For information about red light therapy in the UK and where it will be offered nex...

Send a text Continuing her mission to save her eyesight, Angela was the first person to try red lght therapy when it was offered by the Optegra Hospital in London (it had previously only been offered by them in Manchester.) In this episode, she completes the first round of nine treatments and speaks to Clare O'Donnell, head of eye sciences and optometry for Optegra in the UK. She also speaks...

Send a text After extensive research into the treatment options (or lack of) for AMD, Angela finds out that the Optegra eye hospital is to offer photobiodmodulation or red light therapy, at its London clinic. It was previously only available in Manchester. She is the first person to receive the therapy. Follow her on her journey to London in this exciting new episode for Angela and the staff at Op...

Send a text Angela Young is on a journey to halt her early onset Macular Degeneration. There is currently no treatment available for this condition, which is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK. In episode 1 she explored all the possible treatments in the pipeline, and after the results of a trial for red light therapy were published in January, she decided to give it a go to see if she can...

Send a text Imagine living with a condition that makes recognizing faces and navigating simple steps a daily challenge. Join us as Angela Young bravely shares her personal story of living with macular degeneration, a condition affecting over 700,000 people in the UK. We follow Angela to Spectacular Opticians for a revealing eye test and later hear from a consultant ophthalmologist James Neffendorf...