Now the mystery has been solved. Among the different types of cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy — where light in is used to destroy malignant cells — has one of the strangest side effects, Science Alert reports: patients are often better able to see in the dark. Now researchers...
An academic pleads with her colleagues. “It’s not about you.” That’s the message in an article of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website, chroniclevita.com. Jessie Ramey, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Chatham University, recounts an incident...
He’s been nearsighted since college. Quarterback Jameis Winston underwent LASIK surgery this month to repair his eyesight, CBS Sports reports. Winston has been nearsighted since college, and Tampa Bay head coach Bruce Arians commented on it during the final press conference of 2019....
“She’s my very best friend, my soul mate and my guardian angel.” A deaf woman’s life was saved when her dog woke her in the middle of the night and alerted her to a fire, the UK’s Metro News reports. Hearing dog Pickle nudged and licked owner Kirsten Callander awake and then gave...
The implanted array has 100 electrodes and resembles a tiny bed of nails. Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes. After 16 years of darkness, Bernardeta Gómez was given a six-month window during which she could see a very low-resolution semblance of the world, MIT Technology Review...
If you follow the daily news items we post on our website and social media, you may have caught a story today that is truly remarkable. If not, I just have to share with you, because it seems like science fiction. Here’s the news: researchers in Spain have developed an implant that jacks...
MIT, Responding to Discrimination Lawsuit, Will Caption Online Videos Agreement is part of a settlement in suit on behalf of the deaf and hard of hearing. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has agreed to provide captions for more of its publicly available online videos as part of a...
He Doesn’t Want His Eyesight Back: He’d Rather Keep His Guide Dog Doctor in UK lost his vision overnight. After losing his vision, Anit Patel was adamant that he didn’t want a guide dog, The Sun reports. But his wife finally persuaded him, and since a white Labrador named Kika...
Non-partisan organization helps to inform deaf voters. This week the Communication Service for the Deaf announced the expansion of its SignVote campaign, The Hill reports. The effort is designed to help increase voter participation among the deaf community throughout the 2020 elections. SignVote...
The scientific mystery is confirmed by numerous studies. Over the past 60 years, scientists have been grappling with a strange observation, Vice reports: no one has been able to find even one case of a person with schizophrenia who was born blind. In 2018, a study at the University of Western...
Her owner pleaded for human procedure for the bird. When Nancy Cowan greets her famous falcon named Banner, she offers a bow and utters a little “chup” as a hello, the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire reports. Banner went through a landmark cataract surgery in 2014, but afterwards one of the...
On the TV broadcast, her sign-language performance only showed for a few seconds. “As a child of immigrants, a grandchild of refugees, a Deaf woman of color, an artist and a mother, I was proud to perform the national anthem and ‘America the Beautiful’ in American Sign Language...
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