Latest blindness Stories
LONDON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Many popular social media sites are text, image and video based, meaning those who are blind can find it difficult to fully engage with the content and interact with other users. However, since its launch almost three years ago, social sound network Audioboo has attracted a worldwide following in the visually impaired community. This is not only due to voice being a natural communication tool for such communities, but also because the desktop platform...
PETACH TIKVA, Israel, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OphthaliX, Inc. (OTC BB: OPLI), announced today that it has come to its knowledge that Professor M. Francesca Cordeiro, a Professor of Glaucoma & Retinal Neurodegeneration Studies from UCL and Imperial College in London, presented new data generated independently and unrelated to OphthaliX, validating the utilization of the A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) agonists for lowering intra ocular pressure (IOP) and for the treatment of Glaucoma,...
OXFORD, England, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- -- UshStat(R)video selected to showcase theme of "Life-changing Research" -- Oxford BioMedica plc ("Oxford BioMedica" or "the Company") (LSE: OXB), the leading gene-based biopharmaceutical company, today announces an update from the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) held in Seattle, Washington (USA) on 5-9 May 2013. The ARVO annual meeting is the largest gathering of eye...
New Report by The Vision Council Examines Gaps in UV Safety ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite the damaging effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV) to eyes and vision, 40 percent of U.S. adults do not wear sunglasses while outdoors, and nearly half of drivers do not protect their eyes on the road. Unprotected exposure to the sun increases risk for serious vision problems like cataracts, abnormal eye growths, cancer of the eye and surrounding skin, and...
ILUVIEN now available in Germany as a new treatment for chronic diabetic macular edema ATLANTA, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/-- Alimera Sciences, Inc., (NASDAQ: ALIM) (Alimera), a biopharmaceutical company that specializes in the research, development and commercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, today announced that ILUVIEN(®), the first sustained release pharmaceutical product for the treatment of chronic diabetic macular edema (DME), is now commercially available...
IOWA CITY, Iowa, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IDx LLC, a company focused on deploying cutting-edge technology to make medical diagnostics more effective, announced earlier today that its first commercial product, IDx-DR, has received CE approval as a Class IIa medical device. CE marking clears IDx-DR for sale in 31 countries that comprise the European Economic Area. Developed over the course of two decades by a team of the world's leading retina experts, IDx-DR software runs on...
NY Giants quarterback Eli Manning returns on Monday, June 10 to host Guiding Eyes for the Blind’s 36th Annual Golf Classic alongside the country’s best blind golfers and magnificent Guiding Eyes dogs. The two-day outing, anticipated to raise more than $500,000, will be held at two of the region’s most esteemed courses – Mount Kisco Country Club in Mount Kisco, NY and Fairview Country Club in Greenwich, CT. Westchester County, NY (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 NY Giants quarterback Eli...
Portraits of Hope visits Braille Institute in Los Angeles to involve children who are visually impaired in another major civic initiative. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Portraits of Hope http://www.portraitsofhope.org/ is conducting a session today for children from the Braille Institute in the program’s next big motivational art and civic initiative that will culminate with the vibrant visual makeovers of the fire, rescue, and emergency vehicles in world-renowned Aspen and...
National Health Observance Elevates Awareness Around Vision Loss SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One in three Americans will experience some type of vision-impairing eye disease according to several studies. The month of May is designated as Healthy Vision Month in hopes of educating everyone about early diagnosis, and treatment relating to all vision related issues. Vision disorders are the seventh most common chronic condition for persons aged 65 and older, the ninth most...
CHICAGO, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During Healthy Vision Month in May, the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) urges adults to schedule an eye examination to check for early signs of diabetic retinopathy or age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the 2 leading causes of new cases of vision loss and blindness among adults. Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that affects more than 4 million Americans and results in the most new cases of...
Latest blindness Reference Libraries
The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write. It was devised in 1821 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. The Braille characters are made up of six dot positions arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. Including a subset when dots are not raised, there are sixty-four possible subsets. The positions on the grid are number 1-3 from top to bottom, on the left, and 4-6 from top to bottom on the right. Horizontal Braille text is...
