§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what research is being undertaken in the United Kingdom into the eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe Medical Research Council is giving grant support to two research projects on retinitis pigmentosa. One is a study of abnormal retinal physiology in patients with this condition, the other of genetic and clinical aspects of retinitis pigmentosa with the aim of sub-dividing this group of disorders into individual disease states.
The council's clinical and population cytogenetics unit in Edinburgh is engaged in a search for genetic markers for the condition.