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...
On a recent afternoon in Brooklyn, Mervin Primeaux-O’Bryant and Brandon Kazen-Maddox were filming a music video, The New York Times reports. They were recording a cover version of “Midnight Train to Georgia,” but the voices that filled the room weren’t theirs. The sound came from Gladys...
Every so often I like to pause and consider the amazing progress scientists are making in the fields of sight and hearing. If you follow our daily news stories, you will have learned in the past year about the following: Scientists at UCLA developed a high-tech glove that can translate sign...
Lured by the promise of winning a fortune in a “deaf lottery,” an elderly, deaf Connecticut man sent scammers $51,000 in late February, the Hartford Courant reports. Local police are working with the FBI and law enforcement in other states to collar the con artists behind what is now a nationwide...
An international clinical trial conducted through the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has helped a patient suffering from childhood blindness gain vision after a single injection into the patient’s eye, The Hill reports. The potentially groundbreaking research was...
TikTok has announced the launch of a new feature designed to make its app accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf, Tech Crunch reports. Today the company is debuting auto captions. When enabled, the feature will automatically transcribe the speech from a video so viewers can read...
Drinking alcohol on a regular basis may decrease patients’ chances of developing cataracts that require surgery, Ophthalmology Times reports. And wine consumption has the strongest protective effect against cataracts, due mostly to the abundance of antioxidants found in red wine, according to...
It’s been a tough year, hasn’t it? But thanks to you, our supporters, more people have had their sight or hearing restored. They’re going into the spring with the ability to hear the birds outside their windows or to see the faces of their loved ones. While the Covid pandemic has ravaged our...
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