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• Diabetes in no PicNic – TV commercial

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 147
  Click here to see it on AdPharm AdPharm is the largest online pharmaceutical advertising gallery. It is subscription-based with various subscriptions plans available here .
  5 hours ago

• Now you can hear electric cars coming

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  HALOsonic technology makes electric vehicles sound more like spaceships or sports cars - which should make roads safer for people with visual impairments Is this what a spaceship sounds like? Id imagined something a bit more whooshy, a bit more Millennium Falcon. These stately tones are more "we come in peace" than ...
  21 hours ago

• Thought Provoker

  
  Ginny's Thoughts & Things — Authority: 475
  Quoting from the site… ADJUSTMENT TO BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT by Robert Leslie Newman 2008 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Recipient •I was awarded one of the first ever Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards for my work with THOUGHT PROVOKER. These awards are given to recognize outstanding individual and organizational ...
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• A path to greater freedom | Lorna Walker

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Shared space – streets with lower pavements and less clutter – will allow disabled people to travel with ease and confidence To many people in the UK, pavements and the roads they drive on are of little interest. But for me, as an independent consultant on the built environment and as a wheelchair and crutch-user ...
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• Carl Zeiss Meditec Introduces New Applications For The ATLAS Corneal Topographer At AAO-Opto

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  AAO-Opto Booth # 605 -- New software advances for the ATLAS® Corneal Topography System were released today by Carl Zeiss Meditec during the American Academy of Optometry meeting in Orlando, Florida.
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• After Scouring The World – The Best Effective Herbs Have Been Combined To Make A 90%+ Successful Constipation Formula! Top 7 Problems!

  
  New Shape Diet — Authority: 167
  Below, the top seven diabetic problems are listed.   THE TOP 7 1. EYE PROBLEMS & BLINDNESS: Each year, 12,000-24,000 people become blind because of diabetic eye disease. 2. KIDNEY PROBLEMS: Kidney problems. About 38,000 individuals suffering from diabetes also develop kidney failure every year, and ...
  2 days ago

• Rare Congenital Disorder Leaves Super Baby Faith Without Eyes

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 566
  Little Faith Wildshuetz was born with a rare congenital disorder which has left her without eyes and completely blind. “We just felt that our faith in God and his plan and purpose for her was what was going to carry us through this,” Bridget Wildshuetz said. “So at that point, we said, ‘We’re going to name ...
  2 days ago

• Risks Of Tanning Beds – Not All They Are Hyped Up To Be

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  The risks of tanning beds aren?t all that it?s hyped up to now-a-days. For example, all of the skin cancer horror stories that you hear about all came from people who went about tanning the wrong way 20 to 30 years ago. You see, skin cancer has a latency of about 20-30 years. That long [...]
  2 days ago

• Universities reject Kindle, cite inaccessibility

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  From CNET and the Associated Press:The National Federation of the Blind said Wednesday that Syracuse University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have declined to use Amazon.com’s Kindle DX for textbooks. The reason: the device is not accessible to students who are blind.Pamela McLaughlin, director of ...
  3 days ago

• Many People With Hemianopia Have Difficulty Detecting Pedestrians While Driving, Study Advocates For Individual Testing

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  Schepens Eye Research Institute scientists have found that--when tested in a driving simulator--patients with hemianopia (blindness in one half of the visual field in both eyes) have significantly more difficulty detecting pedestrians (on their blind side) than normally sighted people.
  3 days ago

• Heroes full episode season 4 episode 5 ‘Hysterical Blindness’ in HD part 1

  
  TV Web Set — Authority: 153
  Part 1 of Heroes full episode season 4 episode 5 ‘Hysterical Blindness’ in HD Duration : 0:9:51 (more…)
  3 days ago

• What Is Dry Eye Syndrome? What Causes Dry Eye Syndrome?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  Dry eye syndrome, also known as keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), keratitis sicca, sicca syndrome, xerophthalmia, or simply dry eyes, is an eye disease in which tear film evaporation is high or tear production is low. Dry eye syndrome is commonly found in humans and some animals. The patients eyes dry out and become ...
  4 days ago

• In the news: School chaplains & flogging, police van assault, and inaccessible firefighting

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 137
  What’s grinding my gears today: WA Today: Poor parenting alarms schools Education Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged that poor parenting is placing a heavy burden on schools and has promised principals she will give them more support to tackle violence, bullying and behavioural problems. [...] Gary Quinn, ...
  4 days ago

• Op-ed: ‘How charming to pillory disabled Gordon Brown’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 434
  Writing in the [UK Times], columnist Melanie Reid responds to recent criticism of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the misspellings in a letter of condolence he sent to the mother of a fallen soldier. Reid says personal attacks leveled against Brown amount to public bullying of a man whose impaired vision ...
  4 days ago

• All Types of Vitamins

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 146
  Vitamins (combination of two words: Vital Amines) are the complex organic substance essential in small quantities to the metabolism (nutrition) in most animals. These are found in minute quantities in food, in some cases are produced by the body, and are also produced synthetically. The human body needs them to work ...
  4 days ago

• Secondary Glaucoma due to Lens Luxation in a Dog

  
  Scratchings-and-Sniffings — Authority: 424
  I did a post on glaucoma over on the pet insurance blog last summer. It was basically an overview of the disease process and potential treatment options. Interestingly, I got an e-mail from a reader with a dog that has glaucoma. It was thought provoking and merits general discussion. There are two broad ...
  5 days ago

• What Is Double Vision? What Is Diplopia? What Causes Double Vision?

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  Double vision, also known as Diplopia, is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object - the patient sees two images of a single thing either all the time, or some of the time. The displacement may be horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
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• The Intel Reader

  
  bub.blicio.us — Authority: 559
  Ken Kaplan from Intel reached out to us here at bub.blicio.us about a new device of which he is rightfully proud. The Intel Reader has been announced (although I’m not sure of the release date). No, it’s not a competitor to the Kindle or the Nook. Instead it is designed to provide access to printed text for ...
  6 days ago

• Intel Reader reads books to the lazy and infirm (video)

  
  Engadget — Authority: 878
  While were busying ourselves with arguing about how to replace the perfectly usable book gadget, Intel is right to point out that plenty of people, for whatever reason, cant read at all. Presenting its Reader as a necessity rather than luxury, Intel has shown off its vision for how visually impaired and dyslexic ...
  6 days ago

• Intel Reader reads books to the lazy and infirm (video)

  
  Today's Review — Authority: 168
  While we’re busying ourselves with arguing about how to replace the perfectly usable book gadget, Intel is right to point out that plenty of people, for whatever reason, can’t read at all. Presenting its Reader as a necessity rather than luxury, Intel has shown off its vision for how visually impaired and ...
  6 days ago

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