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22 hours ago · RP causes blindness when the cells in the retina that respond to light — called photoreceptors — die. It can be caused by a variety of underlying genetic mutations, for many of which no ...
2 days ago · People having little contact with those who are blind may imagine that a person's blindness precludes functioning competently in the world. While a 1991 survey reported that blindness is a “more accepted” disability than is mental illness and that 47% of the survey population considered themselves “very comfortable” when meeting a blind person (Louis Harris and Associates, 1991), many ...
5 days ago · The study is a major milestone for the London Project to Cure Blindness and could lead to an ‘off-the-shelf’ treatment within five years. The first patients to receive a new treatment derived from stem cells for people with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have regained reading vision.
5 days ago · People who take Ozempic or Wegovy may have a higher risk of developing a rare form of blindness, a new study suggests.
22 hours ago · With a new three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Shigemi Matsuyama, an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the Case Western Reserve ...
2 days ago · The brains of those who are born blind make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced, compensatory abilities such as a heightened sense of hearing, smell and ...
5 days ago · Patients who took the frequently prescribed diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy faced a greater risk of a stroke of the optic nerve, which can lead to blindness, according to a new...
