Blindness Briefs – Edition 77

What's Inside

  • Another smart cane developed, this one in Nigeria.
  • Amazon reveals new accessibility features.
  • Teacher invents new ways to teach StEM subjects to blind students.
  • July is disability pride month.
  • Blind fashion show.
  • Italy hosts blind baseball clinic.
  • And about 45 articles about all things blindness and blind people from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 76

What's Inside

  • Fashion magazine release braille edition.
  • How Mick Curren and Jamie Teh changed the way blind people live.
  • Mania and psychosis after acquired blindness.
  • Blind women called "health and safety risk" and forced to leave cruise.
  • An Action packed sports section.
  • And, more than forty articles about all things blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 75

What's Inside

  • Designing "with" and not "for" disabled people.
  • Robots that are more disabled friendly.
  • ViewPlus partnering to work on greater access to science for blind.
  • Blind women working to detect breast cancer in India.
  • Blind student falls victim to Twitter scam.
  • Blind woman raped, dies from suicide upon release from hospital.
  • Blind woman with guide dog finds lost woman with dementia.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 55 articles about all things blindness from all over the world.

Science Briefs – Edition 37

What's Inside

  • New gene therapy for Usher F1.
  • New research on diabetes related retinal diseases.
  • Surgery helping with corneal blindness.
  • And 3 other stories about the science and medicine related to blindness from the entire world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 74

What's Inside

  • Microsoft to use ChatGPT to provide tech support for blind customers.
  • A pair of new mobility technologies announced.
  • First blind person to graduate from US Naval Academy.
  • Accessibility barriers remain on government web sites.
  • How do blind people watch movies?
  • Orchestra of all blind musicians to play concert.
  • Another action packed sports section.
  • And, about 65 more articles about blind people and blindness from all over the world.

Science Digest – Edition 36

What's Inside

  • Mini gene therapy for severe genetic disease.
  • New treatments for neovascular glaucoma.
  • Retinitis pigmentosa drugs in the pipeline.
  • And, about 8 articles about the science and medicine of blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 73

What's Inside

  • Apple adds more accessibility improvements.
  • Accessibility in outer space?
  • Google can now describe images.
  • Blind school that was victim to arson attack requests armed guards.
  • Blind people at risk due to inaccessible health information.
  • Blind self proclaimed prophet accused of raping two sisters.
  • Shortage of guide dogs causing problems for some blind people.
  • An action packed sports section.
  • And, about 65 stories about blindness and blind people from the entire world.

Science Briefs – Edition 35

What's Inside

  • Brain structures that can help with sight restoration discovered.
  • Small molecule drugs may help cure some forms of blindness.
  • Warning signs of dying photoreceptor cells.
  • New medication for RP fast tracked.
  • And, 20 other stories about the science and medicine of blindness from all over the world.

Blindness Briefs – Edition 72

What's Inside

  • Students create yet another smart cane for blind.
  • Why designers are making video games for blind people.
  • Blind fashion designer to feature in braille book to be sold at mainstream stores.
  • Intruder gets into bed naked with 86 year old blind resident in care home.
  • Making travel more accessible to the blind.
  • 21 of the best examples of highlighting disability in art.
  • Beep baseball, blind archery, blind cricket and more in the sports section.
  • And, more than 65 articles about blindness and blind people from the entire world.

Science Briefs – Edition 34

What's Inside

  • Using AI to detect retinopathy in prematurity.
    Envision adds ChatGPT to its smart glasses.
  • New drug demonstrates efficacy for RP patients.
  • Medicare deficiencies causing preventable blindness.
  • And, about 15 more stories about the science and medicine related to blindness from the entire world.