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September 8, 2024

A sensory pen which can read Braille could improve literacy amongst the visually impaired

A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been developed by experts at the University of Bristol. Braille literacy is frequently reported as...

May 7, 2024

Breakthrough paves the way for next generation of vision implants

A group of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, University of Freiburg and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have created an exceptionally small...

October 7, 2022

Education vital to help patients considering future gene therapies for blindness

Education vital to help patients considering future gene therapies for blindness: Australians with inherited retinal disease (IRD) have a strong interest in undergoing gene therapy...

August 4, 2021

New drug delivers hope for blindness

A potential improved treatment for two of the leading causes of blindness – age and diabetes-related eye problems – has been demonstrated in research involving...

December 4, 2020

Targets for avoidable sight loss ‘not being met’, 30-year study finds

Targets for avoidable sight loss ‘not being met’, 30-year study finds: A new global study has found no significant reduction in the number of people...

October 15, 2020

Optimal age for senses to compensate blindness

A new study from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Bath has found the optimal age at which sense of touch and hearing...

October 7, 2020

NHS heading for cataracts crisis

The UK is facing a cataracts catastrophe as the Covid-19 lockdown heaps pressure on already overstretched surgeons able to perform the eye operations. A leading...

December 4, 2018

Don’t buy laser pens for your children

A worrying number of adults would consider buying a laser pen as a Christmas present for a child, a new survey from RoSPA has revealed....

December 3, 2018

Global fund to eliminate trachoma

A new global fund has been set up to help finally eliminate one of the most devastating causes of blindness. The blinding eye disease trachoma...

June 14, 2018

Ghana eliminates trachoma

Ghana has made history by becoming the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate trachoma – the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness. In 2000,...