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Blind faith: Do genetic eye disease 鈥榯reatments' work?
Ramadan Younes investigates the world of genetic eye disease 鈥榯reatments鈥� and why Arab patients are more likely to be targeted by marketing.
蜜芽传媒 journalist Ramadan Younes investigates the world of genetic eye disease 鈥榯reatments鈥�, where some practitioners claim to cure the incurable. Living with his own visual impairment, Ramadan sets out to explore how clinics around the world, from Sudan to Gaza and from Russia to the United States, target predominantly Arab patients by advertising, selling and conducting procedures that are at best ineffective and can at worst cause total blindness.
Producer: Matt Pintus
Editor: Clare Fordham
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