Recent Posts Tagged With 'Vision'

• Overnight lenses for young myopic eyes

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 15:46 in children, Vision, contact lenses, overnight, myopia, nearsightedness

  I remember when about a year ago when our paediatrician referred us to an eye specialist to check my twin boys’ eyesight. I was praying silently “Please no eyeglasses…” I mean, the likelihood that they would need glasses at an early age ...

• Gene therapy to treat congenital blindness

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 02:50 in Vision, gene therapy, retina, leber's congenital amaurosis, congenital blindness

  Many people are born partially or fully blind. A recent development in biomedical research is bringing hope to people with congenital blindness and it’s called gene therapy. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the ...

• October 8 is World Sight Day

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 11:30 in Vision, featured, vision impairment, october 8, world sight day, gender and eye health, vision less

  World Sight Day is celebrated every 2nd Thursday of October. It is an annual one-day observance to help increase awareness and focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired. The theme for this year...

• A tooth for an eye

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 09:32 in Vision, blindness, tooth, eye, procedure, modified osteo-odonto keratoprosthesis

  An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. That’s how it is usually said. But in the unusual case of Sharron Thornton, it’s actually an eye for a tooth. Or is it a tooth for an eye? 60-year Thornton has been blind for 9 years, according to this CNN ...

• Implantable lenses to correct myopia

  Posted on Wednesday August 12th, 2009 at 09:32 in Vision, lasik, collagen, myopia, laser therapy, nearsightedness, implantable lens

  I have been nearsighted since my early teens. I had to wear glasses, tried out contact lenses, and now am back to eyeglasses. This recent report in the July issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology describes a novel and promising treatment for myopia t...

• Blind, yet with a vision: Cathy Birchall’s world tour on a motorbike

  Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 04:16 in awareness, Vision, motorbike, blind, world tour, motocycling

  Motorcycling seems like a fun sport. I never tried it myself object width=”425″ height=”344″> except by sitting behind my husband and holding on for my dear life. But even I, as the “passenger” could feel the f...

• Accidental eye injuries: causes and prevention

  Posted on Wednesday July 1st, 2009 at 15:29 in Vision, eyes, prevention, risks, eye injury, protective eyewear

  How’s this for statistics to make you think seriously about protecting your eyes: More than a million people in the US have eye injuries each year. Accidental eye injury is one of the leading causes of vision loss and impairment. 90% of the sa...

• Bright is not good for sight: sun safety tips for the eyes

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 06:48 in Sunglasses, Vision, sun, uv rays, uv protection, eye damage

  With the sun shining and the weather so fabulous, the great outdoors is inviting us to enjoy nature. We all know however that too much of a good thing can be bad and this is also true when it comes to the sun. So we go out with our sun hats and sunsc...