There’s really nothing like this part of the world in the springtime — especially, for those of us near the coast, once the marine layer lifts. Sunny days, nice breezes, cool nights. And as you emerge from the winter of your Covid discontent, you’re looking around and noticing...
In the wake of India’s second wave of COVID-19, hospitals are reporting an increase in cases of mucormycosis, or “black fungus,” a serious but rare fungal infection, Business Insider reports. Dr. Akshay Nair, an eye surgeon who works at three hospitals in Mumbai, told the BBC he...
Newly released body camera footage shows Las Vegas police officers repeatedly asking the children of a Black woman who is deaf to interpret for her as she was being detained, USA Today reports. Deaf advocates say this is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The North Las Vegas...
Verity Smith was born sighted. She began riding horses at the age of three, and competing at five. At eight, after contracting encephalitis and meningitis, Verity began losing her vision. By the age of seventeen, she was 90 percent blind, France Today reports. Through the years, as Verity’s vision...
A team of scientists has announced that they had partially restored the sight of a blind man by building light-catching proteins in one of his eyes, The New York Times reports. Using a technique called optogenetics, researchers added light-sensitive proteins to the man’s retina, giving him a...
This week there was a disturbing story in the news — one of many we’ve seen over the years — about a deaf man who was shooed out of a McDonald’s restaurant in Florida because it was just too hard for the staff to communicate with him. He went away hungry. You can read about...
During the pandemic, some communities have felt left out. That’s why Connecticut Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz stopped by the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford Wednesday, WTNH News reports. She wanted to highlight challenges during the pandemic for that community. The school’s...
Geordi La Forge’s VISOR eyepiece was an iconic part of the character’s signature look, and he wore it through seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation and into the first of that crew’s theatrical films, CBR reports. But then the character received a set of ocular implants in Star Trek:...
Brenda Lander, who has been deaf since birth, went to a McDonald’s in Florida with her 10-year-old daughter, WINK News reports. There was some miscommunication, and she says she waited for 30 minutes for her happy meal or at least for a refund. When neither happened, she asked for a manager....
Paul McCartney has revealed the “eye yoga” he’s practiced for decades, Ultimate Classic Rock reports. The former Beatle said he discovered the exercises in India, and it’s the reason he still doesn’t need glasses at the age of 78. “He explained that your eyes are muscles whereas your...
Spoiler alert — Deaf Awareness Week was actually last week — my bad! However, it’s not an issue that’s going to go away, so I figured my friends would forgive the lapse. Each week we run news stories here on our website that highlight the issues around deafness in our...
The “When We” singer Tank has taken to Instagram to share some health concerns, Revolt reports. “I’m going completely deaf in my right ear and I’m kind of losing sound in my left,” he revealed in the clip. “I’m dizzy, can’t walk a straight line. All of this out of nowhere. Don’t know...
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