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AAO urges health officials to address global myopia epidemic
Photo: Pexels on Pixabay According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), myopia, or nearsightedness, is an eye focusing disorder that occurs when the eye does not bend or refract light...
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Prevent Blindness launches platform for Glaucoma Awareness Month in January
Photo: Daniel Romero on Unsplash Glaucoma is a chronic and progressive eye disease that damages a part of the eye called the optic nerve. When the damage worsens, the condition can cause permanent...
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UK study suggests at-home monitoring for glaucoma may allow earlier detection
Photo: Alexandre Debiève on Unsplash According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), glaucoma, a chronic condition that damages the optic nerve at the back of the eye, is the leading cause...
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Invision Magazine on challenges faced by eye care services during COVID-19
Photo: Jeffrey Eisen on Unsplash According to Invision Magazine, a business magazine for eyecare professionals based in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the provision of eye care...
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Autism Parenting Magazine on motor planning and children with autism
Photo: Perkins School for the Blind According to Autism Parenting Magazine, an American publication for parents and providers of children with autism, motor planning allows children to remember and...
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Qatar Charity provides eye health services in Nigeria
Photo: Victor Nnakwe on Unsplash According to Doha News, an online news blog based in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar, Qatar Charity, an international humanitarian and development organization...
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Actress with hearing loss and cochlear implant appears on American television...
Photo: Kushagra Kevat on Unsplash In 2021, Abigail Heringer, a twenty-five-year-old American actress, became the first hearing-impaired person to appear on The Bachelor, an American television series,...
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Article offers ways to recognize delayed motor development in infants
Photo: Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash BabyGaga, an online pregnancy news website based in the U.S. that offers resources for new and expecting mothers, recently described 7 signs indicating that infants...
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Research study demonstrates new gene therapy for deafness
Photo: Tung256 from Pixabay A research study from Tel Aviv University, a public research university in Israel, led by Professor Karen Avraham of the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and...
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Article provides resources about glaucoma-related vision loss
Photo: Liam Welch on Unsplash KTBS-TV, an American news channel and television station, recently released an article highlighting facts about glaucoma as well as ways to lower the risk of vision loss...
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CVI awareness helps identify early signs of the condition
Photo: Perkins School for the Blind A study, funded by the U.S. National Institute for Health Research, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the nation’s medical research...
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WHO will release World Report on Hearing on World Hearing Day
Photo: World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) held a webinar on February 3, 2021 in preparation for their event, World Hearing Day, and the launch of the World Report on...
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Study demonstrates genetic link between neurodevelopmental disabilities and...
Photo: Sven Brandsma on Unsplash According to an article from News Medical, a scientific and medical news site, researchers from Geisinger and GeneDx Inc., a subsidiary of BioReference Laboratories...
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Research on mutating protein related to retinitis pigmentosa
Photo: rdowns from Pixabay An article published in Ophthalmology Times, a news site that provides tools and knowledge to eye care professionals, focuses on the work of Paul Park, PhD, associate...
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Article on how Nigeria fights to eradicate Trachoma disease during COVID-19
Photo: Tommy van Kessel on Unsplash According to the World Health Organization, Trachoma, a contagious bacterial infection of the eye, is the world’s leading cause of blindness, responsible for the...
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Saudi Arab hospital provides accessible materials related to COVID-19
Photo: Engin Akyurt on Unsplash According to an article published by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), an international alliance working to promote eye health, there are...
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IDA reports on the COVID-19 response for people with disabilities in South Asia
Photo: Perkins School for the Blind The International Disability Alliance (IDA) released a report February 4, 2021 called the Social Protection Response to COVID-19 for Persons with Disabilities,...
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Devex and Essilor advocate for gender equality in vision care
Photo by: Ksenia Chernaya from Pexels The news site Devex, whose platform focuses on global development, released an article that investigates ways to reach gender equality in vision care. Devex...
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Hamad Medical Corporation organized awareness events in Qatar for World...
Photo: S K from Pixabay Hamad Medical Corporation, who operate hospitals in Qatar, organized events at several hospital campuses on World Hearing Day, the Gulf Times reported. This Qatari newspaper...
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Deafblind Information Australia to hold webinars on congenital...
Photo: Deafblind Information Australia Deafblind Information Australia (DIA) is a web based resource established by Australian Children’s Trust and Disability Services...
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