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• Websites for Visually Impaired Users in Georgia

  
  Webupon — Authority: 430
  Okay, well recently I started chatting to someone in Georgia, who has been blind since birth. I have done a lot of work within the visually impaired community over the past few years, and during that time I built up a directory of websites that are useful to people across the world. So I thought I would start making ...
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• River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One Third In At Risk Populations In Six Countries

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  A regional initiative launched in the 1990s to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) in the Americas has substantially reduced the prevalence of the disease in recent years, as evidenced by a 31% decrease in the number of individuals requiring mass drug administration in six endemic countries.
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• tom geraedts: eros.

  
  shape+colour — Authority: 415
  My fascination with colour theory has led me into studying not just the science of colours but also their associated anomalies: colour blindness, synesthesia, and to total blindness itself. Make no mistake: blind people see … just not with their eyes. “Eros” is an incredible short by Tom Geraedts that ...
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• Woman fights to use adaptive technology during bar exam

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 435
  From the San Jose Mercury News:UCLA law graduate Stephanie Enyart is suing the National Conference of Bar Examiners for the right to use adaptive technology when taking the bar exam. She has a form of macular degeneration that has taken away her central vision but leaves her some peripheral vision.The California Bar ...
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• Eyeball to eyeball (with tooth-sucking….)

  
  Writing from the twelfth house — Authority: 112
  Eyeball to eyeball - with politics! Tooth-sucking – ie slow inhalation of air through lower teeth (or, even worse, dentures) – is a very bad sign . Plumbers do it. Electricians do it. Computer geeks do it. Builders are especially prone to it . When accompanied by head-shaking and eyebrow knitting, it is a ...
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• Keep Eye Safety In Mind When Choosing Toys This Holiday

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Imagine a BB gun pellet striking your childs eye with enough force to knock him to the ground. Sadly, some popular childrens gifts around the holidays can cause serious eye injuries.
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• Diabetes surgery summit consensus lays foundation for new field of medicine

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  NEW YORK (Nov. 23, 2009) -- A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online today in the Annals of Surgery.
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• Thorne: TV show aims to show authentic people with disabilities

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 435
  From the [UK] Independent:Jack Thorne, a co-writer for the BBC series “Cast Offs,” says his own experience coping with disability inspired him to create a show that explodes a few myths about disability. Thorne has a condition called chronic cholinergic urticaria, which is basically an allergy to heat, and another ...
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• Video- Youre as pretty as Palin, Carville tells Matalin

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 683
  Embedded video from CNN Video Stockholm Syndrome.
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• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
    We’ve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name ...
  3 days ago

• British surgeons using radiation beams to halt macular degeneration

  
  Engadget — Authority: 871
  Weve seen more eyesight restoration efforts than we could easily count , but rather than tooting their horn about some theoretical discovery, boffins at Kings College Hospital in London are actually putting their hard work to use on real, live human brings. The new process, which goes by the name brachytherapy, ...
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• Medical policy innovation, reduces blindness by a third

  
  INNOVATION. International Journal by 2thinknow. — Authority: 131
  River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) Reduced By Nearly One-Third In At-Risk Populations In Six Countries Progress Represents a Major Step toward the Goal of Interrupting Transmission of River Blindness in the Americas by 2012 WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A regional initiative launched in the 1990s ...
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• Serious long-term complications include cardiovascular disease, chronic renal failure, retinal forfeit, which can lead to blindness, several types of nerve afflict, and microvascular forfeit, which may cause erectile dysfunction and poor wound healing. Ty

  
  Diabetes — Authority: 133
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• Seeing Blankers

  
  HYPERGRAPHIC — Authority: 114
  It’s hard not to gallop through prose that uses commas instead of full stops, but once I learned to slow down, the rewards piled up: his sound, sweet humour, his startling imagination, his admirable dogs and lovers, the subtle, honest workings of his mind. Here indeed was a novelist worthy of a reader’s trust. So ...
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• New super A carrots boost vision (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 22 (ANI): Farmers have grown a novel form of carrots that are 40 per cent richer in antioxidants and can boost vision compared to normal varieties.The superfood, which is set to hit the market next week, is 40pct rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant the body converts into vitamin A and boosts health.It ...
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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!

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 148
  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 ...
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• International Sports Star Undergoes Surgery, Regains Sight At UAB After Training Disaster

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Baljit Singh was looking forward to 2010. The premier event in professional field hockey, the World Cup, is to be hosted in his native India next year. And Singh, 28, was the goalie on the Indian National Team. He was considered the best goalie in Asia, ranked fourth in the world. Until a practice incident on July 17 ...
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• New super A carrots boost vision

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 21 (ANI): Farmers have grown a novel form of carrots that are 40 per cent richer in antioxidants and can boost vision compared to normal varieties.The superfood, which is set to hit the market next week, is 40pct rich in beta-carotene, an antioxidant the body converts into vitamin A and boosts health.It ...
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• Advanced Cell Technology Files IND With FDA For First Human Clinical Trial Using Embryonic Stem Cells To Treat Eye Disease

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 713
  Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTCBB:ACTC) announced that it filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase I/II multicenter study using embryonic stem cell derived retinal cells to treat patients with Stargardts Macular Dystrophy (SMD).
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• Me Gusta Broken Embraces

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  One of the things about language that fascinates me most is that so much of translation is really just a science of digesting a saying comfortably into another tongue. For instance, the phrase me gusta – delineating one liking a person, place, or thing and often translated to mean I like –actually translates ...
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