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Study Shows Hope For Type Of Blindness

Wall Street Journal | By RON WINSLOW | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living


A small but provocative study showed that a form of gene therapy significantly improved the vision of patients left legally blind by a rare genetic ey...

A Cure For Blindness? New Technology Helps The Blind To See

nytimes.com | Posted 09.27.2009 | Technology


Scientists involved in the project, the artificial retina, say they have plans to develop the technology to allow people to read, write and recognize ...

South Sudan At Risk From Blindness For Lack Of Ophthalmologists

Inter Press Service | Posted 09.14.2009 | World


By Skye Wheeler | Inter Press Service JUBA, Sudan, Aug 14 (IPS) - In the war-devastated South Sudan, a region with a population of over eight milli...

Must The Blind Lead The Blind?

Julia Moulden | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living


Julia Moulden

Clearly, something big and important is going on. A major shift in the way people think about work. Might we consider welcoming the people who want to be the New Radicals with open arms?

Test Your Eyes for 5 Minutes!

www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy


Have you been working hard for the last 5 hours? Your eyes are tired and your vision is difficult to concentrate, isn't it? This simple game will not only check your vision and your ability to see the latent images. It will allow you to do simple exercises for the eyes, and after 5 minutes you are ready to get back to work again!

Rabbi Dennis Shulman: Battling an "Enemy of the Environment"

Simran Sethi | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green


Simran Sethi

A portion of this interview first appeared in Heeb. Governor Sarah Palin has demonstrated that anyone can run for office. This is both good and bad...

Quiet Hybrid Cars A Threat To Blind People

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive:...