Reader’s Digest columnist opens up about her hearing loss. “Hearing loss sneaked up on me gradually,” Reader’s Digest columnist Aviva Patz writes in a recent column. “I missed bits of conversations here and there, mostly in noisy restaurants, until suddenly I found...
Deafness may lead to aggression. Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss, Phys.org reports. Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Institute of Biology Leiden have reported surprising new findings about the impact of human-created noise on...
Pollution could nearly double the risk of age-related macular degeneration. Vehicle pollution could almost double the risk of visual impairment from macular degeneration (AMD), Science Focus reports. Taiwanese researchers found that people over the age of 50 who live in the most highly polluted...
Federal lawsuit alleges violation of Americans With Disabilities Act. Two deaf men have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the annual Burning Man event violates the Americans With Disabilities Act by not providing interpreters for hearing impaired participants, the San Jose Mercury...
Start the check-ups early. Children with immediate family members who had significant vision issues before elementary school should see an eye doctor by their first birthday, Penn State Health recommends. And kids with a remote family history of early eye problems should be seen for the first time...
Amber Galloway Gallego keeps up with Twista, the world’s fastest rapper. At a recent rap performance in Charlotte, NC, all eyes were on the sign language interpreter, NBC News reports. Twista was once Guinness World Records’ “fastest rapper of all time,” and at his performance last...
It’s the first use of CRISPR technology on humans. Patients are being enrolled in the first study to test the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the body to try to cure an inherited form of blindness, Newser.com reports. People with Leber congenital amaurosis have normal eyes but...
Hearing-impaired girl is the outcast new kid at a big high school. Maya Harris, the protagonist in ‘The Silence Between Us,’ lost her hearing at 13, National Public Radio reports. In its review of the new book, Alethea Kontis points out that even the book’s cover is designed by a...
Mice in experiments have regained their vision. According to researchers, gene therapy is helping the retina to restructure itself and regain normal light responses, Interesting Engineering reports. Ultimately, the therapy has led to regained vision in mice. A paper published in JNeurosci supports...
His mom tells him when to turn. A rider who is completely blind in one eye and has almost no vision in the other won at the British Showjumping national championships, Horse & Hound reports. And he did it on a horse had ridden only once before. Ronnie Robinson, 14, and In a World of His Own...
“Stop assuming we’re incompetent.” Now a disability rights attorney, Haben Girma has made it her mission to advocate for equal opportunities for people with disabilities, NBC News reports. She became the first deaf-blind woman to graduate from Harvard Law School in 2013, and in...
Their vision is that good. Baby jumping spiders have vision that’s almost as extraordinarily good as the grown-ups’, Science Alert reports. The baby spiders are only around a hundredth of the size of their parents. A new study reports that the tiny spiderlings have the same number of...
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