He was inspired by 100-year-old Captain Tom Moore. An 11-year-old boy has run one mile a day for 26 days to raise money for charity, BBC News reports. Ted Hardstaff, from Nottinghamshire in the UK, has Stickler syndrome, which caused his retinas to detach resulting in blindness at the age of two....
Before Charlotte Carreon got her hearing aids, her TV was so loud that the whole neighborhood could hear it. Her neighbor across the street told her, “I can hear your TV over here,” and she’d say, “Well good, because I can’t.” The worst thing, Charlotte told us,...
Housing advocacy group says they violate the Fair Housing Act. Sixteen senior living communities are facing lawsuits from a consortium of nonprofit fair housing organizations, McKnight’s Senior Living reports. The suits allege that the communities did not provide interpreters or other aids...
The CDC says it’s possible. When virologist and epidemiologist Dr. Joseph Fair recently became ill with Covid-19, he concluded that he got it through his eyes, National Public Radio reports. Speaking from his hospital bed, Fair said that he had been on a crowded flight two weeks earlier, and...
It’s a tough time. Sometimes it’s good to see some inspiration from other lands. This week we came across this song that embodies the history of Australian, told in Australian Sign Language (Auslan). So take a break from all the stressful news and enjoy! Sincerely,
MRI scans reveal changes in the brain. U.S. researchers have found that spaceflight could affect the human brain in unusual ways, Medical Dialogues reports. The examination of patients with “spaceflight associated neuro-ocular syndrome” has revealed a number of structural changes,...
Australians Raise Accessibility Awareness With Sign Language Video
Drug is normally used for cancer and macular degeneration. Premature babies could be treated with a very small dose of Avastin to prevent retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), the National Institutes of Health reports. ROP is one of the leading causes of blindness in children. A study conducted by the...
Police will be alerted that a driver is deaf. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed a new bill into law that will help deaf and hard of hearing people when they are pulled over by law enforcement officers, ABC News in Columbia reports. The law will go into effect next year, and will...
“I’m blind, I’m not weak.” But when Antoine Craig, who is completely blind, walked into Jason Elkin’s gym in Richmond, Virginia, Elkin was stopped in his tracks, WTVR News reports. Antoine has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that causes the retinas to slowly die...
Four years ago, when Elena Sabilla was living in the Philippines, she started to have trouble with her eyes. She went to a doctor, who told her she had glaucoma. “He gave me some eye drops,” she told us, “but it got worse.” Two years ago she moved to California to be closer...
Stress led to heart attack and retinal failure. Mahmoud Samy lost his eyesight while working at Kafr el-Sheikh Chest Hospital in Baltim on the north coast of Egypt, Egypt Today reports. “We had 30-40 [Covid-19] cases transferred to us from Embaba Fevers [Hospital] in a day. We worked so much and...
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