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A new surgery can give legally blind people 20/20 vision
The CDC estimates that in 2010 alone, 2.5 million emergency room visits or deaths were associated with traumatic brain injury in the United States. This type of injury can cause severe damage to a...
View ArticleThere's a code on the street blind people can read with their feet
The UK's pavements are covered with different patterns – but you might not know that they actually serve a very important purpose. The patterns are called tactile paving and they help blind or...
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A program to rescue 500,000 people from blindness could get a $100 million boost
An estimated 500,000 people could retain their sight if a simple, cost-effective program gets the necessary funding. As part of its 100&Change grant program, the MacArthur Foundation has selected...
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Common explains why he's fighting against a blindness epidemic most people...
Common is a busy guy. On top of acting and making music, the Oscar winner values the importance of using his fame and extraordinary talent for projects that reflect his own values. He cares about...
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The US will fund brain-computer interfaces to treat blindness, paralysis and...
Matt Angle’s claim might have sounded eccentric before: for years, he insisted that the key to solving one of neuroscience’s most intractable challenges lay in a 1960s-era technology invented in the...
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Microsoft just released an incredible new app that helps blind people see the...
Artificial intelligence is helping people do extraordinary things. At Microsoft, it's helping blind people see the world around them like never before. In March of last year, Microsoft showed off a...
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These graphs show how much Americans were freaking out about vision loss...
Perhaps nothing captures the hysteria over Monday's solar eclipse than the things Americans were looking up on Google in the hours that followed. According to Google Trends data, several search terms...
View ArticleWatch the incredibly detailed work that goes into creating prosthetic eyes
Prosthetic eyes are created for each individual patient, making each one a custom work of art. Each eye is made with an acrylic mold based on the patient's eye. A specialist, called an ocularist,...
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Researchers may have discovered a way to reverse blindness
Visual impairment is still rather rampant, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Some 285 million people worldwide are considered visually impaired, and 39 million of them are blind....
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A first-of-its-kind treatment for blindness just got one step closer to approval
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee just gave a critical recommendation for a cutting-edge gene therapy. The treatment, called Luxturna, treats Leber congenital amaurosis, a...
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The FDA just approved the first gene therapy to treat blindness (ONCE)
The US Food and Drug Administration just approved the first gene therapy for an inherited disease. The treatment, called Luxturna, is for Leber congenital amaurosis, a hereditary form of blindness....
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Blue light emitted by smartphones and laptops accelerates blindness by making...
A new study found that blue light can cause macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of blindness. Blue light harms our vision by damaging the eye's retina, the researchers say. The study found...
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Swiss drug giant Roche reportedly readies to buy the biotech behind the first...
Swiss drugmaker Roche is nearing a deal to buy Philadelphia-based biotech company Spark Therapeutics, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Spark's gene therapy is for a rare form of blindness...
View ArticleThis blind pit bull was left to die — but found his forever family instead
Bear the Blind Pit is a rescue dog who was hit by a car and left to die in the road. His original owner abandoned him at the veterinary hospital, so one hospital employee and her daughter decided to...
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A 25-year-old may go blind after eating nothing but pizza, pasta, fries, and...
A 25-year-old UK woman fears she may lose her vision due to a nutritional deficiency. She's eaten nothing but pizza, plain pasta, french fries, and chicken nuggets since she was 3 years old. The...
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A 4-year-old girl in Iowa went blind after the flu caused a rare disease to...
Jade DeLucia, a 4-year-old in Iowa, was not vaccinated this flu season and wound up in intensive care. On January 1, her parents discovered that the flu had affected the part of Jade's brain that...
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This is the UK's first pregnancy test specifically for visually impaired...
Summary List PlacementVisually impaired women can't use pregnancy tests without assistance, so British designers have created a pioneering prototype, which allows these women to be the first to learn...
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Second Sight Medical Products soars 592% after the FDA approves its visual...
Summary List PlacementShares of Second Sight Medical Products shot up by nearly tenfold Friday after the Food and Drug Administration cleared for use a visual prosthesis system that the company has...
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Clubhouse suspended a blind man for providing a live transcript to help deaf...
Summary List Placement"Be inclusive," Clubhouse implores users as they attend talks and Q&As on its platform. "Tolerate, welcome, and consider diverse people and perspectives."But while it pleads...
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Scientists partially restored a blind man's vision using gene therapy and...
Summary List PlacementAfter 13 years of work, a team of scientists have reached a major milestone in treating genetic blindness.The scientists used a cutting-edge technique to build light-catching...
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