Racing to Save the Eyesight of 84 Million People
Last year, a horrible disease impaired and robbed 8 million people of their vision. Right now, 84 million people are infected with this disease. But there can also be cause for hope.
Last year, a horrible disease impaired and robbed 8 million people of their vision. Right now, 84 million people are infected with this disease. But there can also be cause for hope.
divinecaroline.com | :Â Vicki Santillano (View Profile) | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
The way blind people dream is quite unique, but dream they do, just as frequently as anyone else. On the other hand, "Do blind people see in their dre...
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...
Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
After a whirlwind week that saw their family featured on the front page of The Huffington Post and $30,000 raised to help them pay their overwhelming ...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
UPDATE: Due to an overwhelming response from the HuffPost community, we've extended the length of this fundraiser, raising our goal to $30,000 (we wer...
HuffingtonPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
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 ...
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
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...
Posted 09.06.2009 | Green
"Today Show"'s Jill Rappaport chatted with Nicole and Eric Yost, who breed and train guide dogs for the blind, this morning about their participation ...
James Love | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business
The number of accessible works is very small everywhere. However, in developing countries, the collections are super small, and access to works in languages other than English is practically non-existent.
Julia Moulden | Posted 06.16.2009 | Living
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?
Times Of London | Sarah-Kate Templeton | Posted 05.19.2009 | Living
BRITISH scientists have developed the world's first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a ro...
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!
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment
BALTIMORE — Blind people quarantined in a mental asylum, attacking each other, soiling themselves, trading sex for food. For Marc Maurer, who's ...
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:...
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.19.2009 | World