A Brighter Future for Livie
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Thanks to a groundbreaking treatment, children who once faced inevitable blindness now have a chance to regain—and retain—their sight.
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The Margie and Robert E. Petersen Foundation has given a transformational $25 million gift that honors the couple's legacy of helping children and families.
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More than a year after becoming one of the first medical institutions nationally to complete a revolutionary gene replacement surgery to restore vision in patients with retinal degeneration, surgeons
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Helpful Hamsters
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