Here we go again — it’s almost here. A week from Sunday is Mother’s Day, and as usual, you have no idea what to do about it. Am I right? Also as usual, I’m here to help, with a new twist. If you’ve been reading these posts for a while, you won’t be surprised at...
250,000 clear face masks are to be delivered to front-line National Health Service and social care workers, the UK government has announced. NHS and care workers will be given the masks to help them communicate with people with conditions like hearing loss, autism and dementia. The masks are...
A version of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ has been released by the College of Optometrists with blurred text and illustrations to highlight the importance of children’s eyesight, Optician Online reports. The College has published the book as part of Focus on Life public...
Like many deaf people, Sara Novic found frustration when she arrived to get her Covid-19 vaccination. “Though thousands of people filtered through this site each day, there was no sign language interpreter anywhere to be found,” she wrote for CNN.com. “Verbal cues ran the entire...
Carrots, by virtue of their heavy dose of Vitamin A (in the form of beta carotene), truly are good for your eye health. But the truth has been stretched into a myth that carrots can improve your night-time vision, Smithsonian Magazine reports. John Stolarczyk, curator of the World Carrot...
A commercial aired during the 2021 Oscars generated nearly as much buzz as some of the nominees, San Diego’s NBC 7 reports. The Google ad features a pair of grandparents who are deaf using various pieces of technology to communicate amid the pandemic, keeping up with their baby grandson....
Kerstin Brucki has a lifelong acquaintance with blindness. Wet macular degeneration runs in her dad’s side of the family. “I know the impact of not having sight,” she says. “It’s a soft spot in my heart.” So when Kerstin was introduced to her local Lions Club in...
They certainly look amazing, but are you risking your eyesight? As the possibility of large gatherings gets closer, cosplayers are itching to get back to their Comic Cons, and that means planning their otherworldly costumes, complete with non-human eye designs on contact lenses. Writing in The...
It all started in a room in Paris, where sound designer Nicolas Becker and director Darius Marder sat in silence, CNN reports. The room was an anechoic chamber, designed to swallow noise. The two were preparing for “Sound of Metal,” a film about an American rock drummer and recovering...
Research published last week in Nature’s Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy found that deposits of amyloid beta protein in the retina of patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) trigger a part of the immune system, leading to death of cells that make up one of the inner layers of...
You may have read in a recent blog about one of our clients, Dianne Keil. One aspect of her story hit me particularly hard. She told us that her hearing had been declining for seven years. “I tried everything,” she told us. “I never got lucky.” Seven years. Of course her...
In 2017 Congress passed legislation that would let anyone buy hearing aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration without a prescription from an audiologist, Shira Ovide reports in The New York Times. The F.D.A. has missed a deadline to release draft guidelines for this new category, but...
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