Another reason to address pollution, says UK study. Living in a more polluted area is associated with a greater likelihood of having glaucoma, Medical Express reports. A new study led by University College London (UCL) found that people in neighborhoods with higher amounts of fine particulate...
Former backer now wants it off the market.
“My face is my voice.” As the Lady in Purple in “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” Alexandria Wailes finally has a part that reflects her many parts, Gia Kourlas writes in The New York Times. She is deaf. She is mixed race. And she is a dancer....
Chord Assist can output instructions through braille, audio, or on a display in guitar’s body. Joe Birch, a Google Expert and Android developer, has created a new guitar called the Chord Assist, PC Magazine reports. Joe has the genetic disorder retinitis pigmentosa, which causes a loss of...
Now he’s urging everyone to get their eyes checked. While on tour in his back in the 1980s, Kirk Pengilly started seeing “halos” around bright lights, the Daily Telegraph reports. He figured it was just conjunctivitis — or one too many beers. But then he woke up in Darwin after the...
Thieves stole everything. The broken lock made Sandra Rivers sick to her stomach, NJ.com reports. “Everything was gone,” from the cafe she was about to open in Newark, NJ, she said. That included the cappuccino machine, the convection oven, the cash register, the fryer, the refrigerators....
He credits adaptive sports for giving him hope. In October 2010, an explosion left Dorian Gardner legally blind, California Live reports. While on patrol in Afghanistan, his unit came under fire. During the firefight a bomb exploded, and Dorian lost his left eye. His right eye was severely...
“Trust Gap Persists For Charities.” That’s the headline in the current Chronicle of Philanthropy. Ouch. The article goes on to talk about how donors are becoming more wary. We know that some well-known charities have had a range of problems over the past few years, and it’s...
But special alarms are expensive. In January, the Tenney family escaped their burning home in Pittsburgh, Action News 4 reports. They were able to get out in time because Aric Tenney, 13, who was born completely deaf in his right ear, saw and felt the smoke alarm going off, unlike the rest of his...
Research is a collaboration between Yale, Harvard and MIT. Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. Now a study by a joint research team from Yale, MIT and Harvard has identified the cellular culprits of AMD, the Yale Daily News...
Deafness is the most common service-related disability. Deaf veterans are not succeeding in college at the same rate as hearing veterans, the University of Texas reports. A study from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes at The University of Texas at Austin found that deaf...
Indian startup pioneers the use of a special hydrogel. Pandorum Technologies, an Indian bioprinting startup, has recently used 3D printed cornea tissue to facilitate the healing of wounds in the eye, DocWire reports. Using a novel hydrogel, the bioprinted tissue promotes scarless healing of wounds...
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