New research finds a drug designed to help your heart may also help with a serious eye problem that leaves many seniors without vision. As Dr. Dean Edell reports, the drug doesn't treat the disease, but it may is prevent it.

There are a lot of things Louise Collier doesn't like about growing old. So far, losing her vision has been the hardest.

Louise Collier, macular degeneration patient: "That's the worst thing that can happen to you. You don't realize it as you go day by day seeing, but you can't do anything when you can't see."

Louise has wet macular degeneration -- a deterioration of the retina that blurs her central vision. At 82, she's not alone. It's the leading cause of vision loss in America.

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