David Newsome, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDavid Newsome
ophthalmologist
Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1942
Date of Death: 24-Feb-2011
Profession: ophthalmologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About David Newsome
- David Anthony Newsome M.D.
- FARVO (16 April 1942 – 24 February 2011) was a scientist, ophthalmologist, inventor, and author.
- He studied the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and proposed the usefulness of zinc supplements to slow the rate of vision loss from age-related macular degeneration.He also found that the eye's pigmented retina, a type of covering or epithelial tissue, could produce some types of collagen.
- His findings came when it was thought that epithelial tissues either could not (or did not) produce collagen.
- His new observations opened a new field of investigation of the collagen and related structural molecules in the eye and other tissues.
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