Latest low vision Stories
Low Vision Treatment FARMINGTON, Conn., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Dr. Randolph C. Kinkade, a Connecticut optometrist and founding member of the International Academy of Low Vision Specialists, has written the Guide for Macular Degeneration Eyeglasses: Low Vision Treatment. The book helps educate individuals and their doctors about the newest ways to help people see better with macular degeneration and low vision. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130510/CG10981)...
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- http://www.enhancedvision.com For the last five years, Enhanced Vision's popular Acrobat CCTV has been a mainstay in classrooms, offices, and homes, providing visually impaired individuals with effective up close and distance magnification. Taking this proven solution one step further, they've now introduced the Acrobat HD, giving the low vision community extraordinarily sharp high definition images while retaining the same...
International Academy of Low Vision Specialists, founding member, Dr. Randolph Kinkade prescribes new bioptic telescopic glasses for retired basketball coach suffering from vision loss. Manchester, CT (PRWEB) March 29, 2013 Former women's high school basketball coach William Baiocchi thought he had discovered a whole new definition to the term March Madness when failing vision forced him to the sidelines of his beloved game. Baiocchi, 67, suffers from a rare genetic condition...
Web site goes live today ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vision Council is pleased to announce the launch of www.whatislowvision.org -- a new web site created to educate the public on low vision, its symptoms, and the resources available to help. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130228/PH61076LOGO-a )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130228/PH61076LOGO-b ) As America's baby boomers enter their senior years, they may notice a gradual loss in...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- For most people, age brings a decline in vision. Some of the most frequently diagnosed age-related diseases trigger the loss of vision or blindness, including cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in The State of Vision, Aging and Public Health in America that cases of early age-related macular degeneration are expected to double by...
Despite current beliefs, the degenerative eye condition age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of vision impairment and blindness in sub-Saharan Africa, requiring an urgent review of vision services, according to a study by international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Researchers from Kenya, Rwanda, and the UK, currently led by Andrew Bastawrous from the International Eye Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, found that age-related...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The CentraSight(TM) treatment program, now available at Retina Associates of Miami in South Florida, features the first-ever FDA-approved telescope implant surgical option for patients with End-Stage Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the most advanced form of AMD and the leading cause of blindness in older Americans. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130213/LA59823) Smaller than a pea, the telescope implant uses...
To Encourage More Patients to Seek Help, Utah Optometrist Offers Free Travel on Home Visits and Free Phone Consults in February for “Age-Related Macular Degeneration & Low Vision Awareness Month Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 Landscape painter Beverly Mastrim beats macular degeneration, keeps right on painting thanks to advances in optics technology. Landscape painter Beverly Mastrim isn’t even close to finished working, even at age 84. As a water-colorist, oil...
AMSTERDAM, February 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To support visually impaired and dyslectic people in their efforts to read, the 'Better Vision' app has been developed: a functional and handy all-in-one app that magnifies text and reads English, German, Spanish or Dutch text out loud on iPhones, iPads (mini) and Android devices. The app can also light up text and enhance contrast; useful for reading the paper, a menu, street names, and bus numbers or for recognising items in the...
WILMINGTON, N.C., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine the heartbreak for someone who gradually loses the ability to see her grandchildren, husband and the people who mean the most to her. Now imagine her joy when she can see them again. Thanks to a groundbreaking new treatment program called CentraSight, this dream can now be a reality for patients around the country with end-stage age related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in older Americans. Smaller...
