HR representatives at Antioch store refused to return calls involving Video Relay Service. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Target Corp. on behalf of a job applicant who says the company refused to interview him because he is deaf, Bay City News reports. John...
Too many users are flushing them down the toilet. Disposable contact lenses are posing a real threat to the environment, The New York Times reports. Research presented at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Boston last month showed that 20 percent of more than 400 contact wearers in a...
Deaf activist and actor Nyle DiMarco addresses UN conference. “I advocate for early education because growing up, my life was really privileged. My deaf parents knew exactly how to raise a deaf child,” Nyle DiMarco told UN News during a visit to the United Nations Headquarters. On Sunday, the UN...
Herbal medicine also helped. Acupuncture and herbs can improve eyesight for patients with diabetic retinopathy, the Healthcare Medicine Institute reports. Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s ophthalmology department conducted a controlled clinical trial and...
“He makes me feel … sorta like safe.” Usually small dogs with large floppy ears and big paws are first to go at a shelter, but Cole’s case was different, SNJ Today reports. Cole, an abandoned American bulldog, is deaf. “Nobody wanted to adopt him. He had so many families come to...
EEOC accuses company of “malice or reckless indifference” to driver’s rights. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing an Omaha-based trucking company for refusing to hire a driver because he is deaf, U.S. News reports. The lawsuit claims Werner Enterprises declined...
Developed countries are seeing more cases of ocular syphilis. Increasing numbers of people in industrialized countries are at risk from permanent eye damage to their vision as a result of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis, Newsweek reports. An international team of researchers warned about...
Chris Haulmark would be the first deaf legislator in U.S. history. The candidate running for the 15th District seat in the Kansas House of Representatives will be the first deaf legislator at the state or federal level in U.S. history, the Kansas City Star reports. Chris Haulmark’s top...
Semiconductors convert light into electricity. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have fully 3D printed a bionic eye, Science Daily reports. The eye consists of an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery could someday help blind people see or sighted people to...
It’s the first one on the East Coast. Three graduates of D.C.’s Gallaudet University, which serves students who are deaf and hard of hearing, have co-founded Streetcar 82 Brewing Co this summer, WAMU reports. Streetcar 82 is the first deaf-owned brewery on the East Coast, named for the 82...
A hawk comes out on top. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that Harris’s hawk, a bird found in the southwestern United States, may have the best color vision of all animals, India Today reports. Good vision is usually associated with the size of the eyes, but the hawk...
Unemployment is a big problem among the deaf and hearing-impaired. At Mozzeria, and authentic Neapolitan pizzeria in San Francisco, you might have to wait two hours for a table on a Saturday night. When you do make it into the dining room, the atmosphere is surprisingly quiet. That’s...
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