A legally blind athlete is suing three triathlon groups over a rule that makes him and other vision-impaired runners wear blackout glasses -- leaving them temporarily sightless -- in a controversial effort to "level the playing field.''
In recent years, social games have become increasingly prevalent on mobile devices, providing entertainment, yes, but also a way to maintain contact with family and friends.
I used to chuckle at people who complained about their glasses -- their thin, wispy glasses.
Can a series of sounds help a blind man, in a sense, see? Daniel Kish takes CNN on a road-test of his echolocation.
Follow Daniel Kish out onto a dock and ask him about the view.
I have wet macular degeneration that is being "successfully" treated with Avastin. Please comment on reports of blindness related to this treatment. Many thanks!
Is there a treatment for macular degeneration of the eye?
While the belief that prolonged close-up activities like reading and playing computer games cause short sightedness (myopia) is popularly held, new research indicates that a deficiency of sunlight is the true culprit.
Is the digital age making your child near sighted? CNN's Pauline Chiou talks to experts. The answer may surprise you.
I'm 39 years old and have had a few floaters in both eyes for as long as I can remember. I go to the eye doctor every year for my glasses but forget to ask about these floaters. What causes them? Do I need to worry?
A blind Michigan man, rejected by three law schools after scoring poorly on the Law School Admission Test, is suing the American Bar Association, arguing that the group's exam requirements discriminate against the visually impaired.
If you're reading these words through bifocals or progressive lenses, your life could change in June.
Many jobs have similar-sounding names, which can lead to confusion. Type in "ornithologist" when you meant to search the Web for an orthodontist and you'll find someone who can identify the bird in your yard, but not help with an overbite. Here are some other occupational mix-ups:
Second phase trials have started across Europe into pioneering eye surgery that allows some blind people to see.
Our bodies have an amazing capacity to freak us out.
My 3-year-old daughter has a trick. She can turn her right eye completely inward at will. We noticed it when she was an infant and have taken her several times to a pediatric ophthalmologist. He checked her out, dilated her pupils and suggested that there was nothing wrong, especially now that she has control over it. Should I stop worrying about it now, or go get a second opinion (the second opinion would be quite a drive)?
The International Assistance Mission on Monday identified the 10 aid workers killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, last week. The 10 "were our friends and colleagues from the Nuristan medical eye camp team," the organization said in a statement.
Risking their lives to help disadvantaged Afghans became almost a norm for Tom and Libby Little.
CNN's Allen Chernoff has the story of Tom Little, one of 6 Americans executed in a remote part of Afghanistan.
I am a type 2 diabetic with an average hemoglobin A1C of 6.1. Would it be safe to use an over-the-counter liquid corn remover on my foot?
Can you tell me about glaucoma? What is it? How is it detected? What happens if it is not treated?
Take your thumb and hold it out directly in front of you, away from your face. Now close the left eye. Open it and close the right eye.
We've all heard that carrots play a huge role in overall eye health but what else can you eat to improve the health of your eyes and reduce the risk of disease?
SI.com's writers will preview each event from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Here's David Epstein's look ahead to bobsled.
I have worn glasses for nearsightedness since I was 15. I recently turned 40 and sometimes have trouble focusing on small things close up (such as text messages on my cell phone or restaurant menus). My eye doctor says I may need bifocals. Why did this happen and what can I do to avoid wearing bifocals?
Barbara Campbell, blind for most of her life, today can see shapes and sense light, thanks to an artificial retina.
As a thick, gray haze began to descend over the words in her schoolbooks, and eventually the faces of loved ones, Barbara Campbell barely grasped that she was going blind.
A chip inside the eye that can help blind people see again is moving closer to reality as researchers at MIT work on a retinal implant that can bypass damaged cells and directly offer visual input to the brain.
In the developing world millions of people struggle to operate machinery, read from a blackboard, or just see the world around them, because they don't have access to the eyeglasses they need.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen reports on a surgery where a tooth was used to save a woman's sight.
Nine years of blindness almost drove Sharron "Kay" Thornton to suicide.
When Albert Budacz was young, he prided himself on having good eyesight; he never wore glasses. But as he eased into his late 40s, he couldn't see as well. "I noticed a change in my vision," he explained. "Primarily in church when I would open a Bible, or something like that, I had to position myself under a light to see it."
It's important to get your eyes examined to ward off loss of eyesight as CNN.com's Melissa Long reports.
Calvino Inman had just stepped out of the shower one evening in May when a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror caused him to panic. "I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die," says the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee. His eyes were streaming tears of blood.
A family is seeking treatment for a rare condition that has a teen crying blood.
A man is able to see his wife and kids after 17 years of partial blindess due to breakthrough titanium eye transplant surgery.
When George Pinon thinks of colors, he associates them with what other people have described.
Do you want to keep your vision clear as the years go by? Put fish, olive oil, and nuts on the menu, but stay away from trans fats, according to new research from Australia.
Without seeing the water, the weather, or even his own boat, Dick Lancaster steered a 25-foot yacht to a silver medal at a sailing world championships this month.
Been squinting a lot lately? Have to move your magazine six inches away from your eyes to read it? Vision problems creep up on you as you age. But good habits -- not unlike the ones you've already established to protect your heart, bones, and brain -- can help keep your eyes healthy. Try these simple tips to safeguard your vision now and for years to come.
Researchers may be getting closer to an effective way of preventing age-related macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of vision loss among older Americans.
When the circus came to Atlanta, some visually impaired children got a very special lesson.
An enormous Asian elephant stepped out from behind a big red curtain at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Atlanta, Georgia.
While tucking our sons into bed the other night, I was struck by how many of their physical attributes they've inherited from my husband and me. Eleven-year-old Nate has my heart-shaped face, large eyes, and cowlicky hair, along with my husband's mouth and freckles. Six-year-old Nicky, on the other hand, has the same green eyes and dirty-blond hair that I do, but my husband's nose and chin.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania announced in April 2008 the use of an innovative gene therapy treatment to safely restore vision in three adults with a rare form of congenital blindness. The technique involves an injection that delivers DNA to the nucleus of a cell so it can begin making the protein that the blind patients don't have. Although the patients have not achieved normal eyesight, the results set the stage for possible treatment of other retinal diseases.
Age-related macular degeneration is a baby-boomer disease that, according to the American Medical Association, affects more than 10 million Americans. It is one of the leading causes of blindness for people over age 65. A study published in the July 2007 issue of Archives of Ophthalmology found that current smokers are four times more likely to develop this eye problem than nonsmokers.
Following a personal tragedy, Chandrasekhar Sankurathri devoted his life to providing eye care to the blind in India.
When doctors told Kelly Harmsen that her son, Joshua, 2, had amblyopia, or lazy eye, she couldn't imagine keeping an eye patch on him for three hours a day. He pulled it off after about 30 seconds.
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Jennifer talks to Margaret Duah-Mensah, an opthalmic nurse for Unite For Sight who regularly visits the Buduburam Refugee camp.
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.
The U.S. discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that makes it impossible for them to distinguish among the bills' varying values, a federal appeals court ruled
A decade after Lasik eye surgery hit the market, patients left with fuzzy instead of clear vision are airing their grievances before federal health officials
Larry Birkhead and Anna Nicole Smith's 1-year-old daughter Dannielynn is "resting comfortably" after undergoing corrective eye surgery, Birkhead tells Entertainment Tonight.
Remember when vitamin C was hailed as the best, and maybe only, cold remedy? Then it became the Rodney Dangerfield of vitamins: It didn't get any respect.
Vanessa Hux went to Ghana with Unite For Sight to help an ophthalmologist give eye care to a community of two million.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Eye surgeon Virendar Sangwan has perfected a procedure so cutting-edge that most who have tried it have failed. In an operating theater in the central Indian city of Hyderabad, he surgically implants corneas grown in a petri dish from stem cells by his colleague Geeta Vemuganti in patients with damaged eyes. Together they perform about 80 corneal regeneration procedures a year, making the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute where they work one of the most prolific facilities in the world using stem cells to regenerate tissue of any kind.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) are helping to explain why humans see illusions.
Forget shoot-em-up addicts -- video games are reaching out to the rest of us.
The recall of Complete MoisturePlus, which the CDC says may be linked to a blinding eye condition, is just the latest problem for solutions
In late November, when a federal district judge ruled that American greenbacks violate the federal Rehabilitation Act because the various denominations are not readily distinguishable by blind peop...
The Bush administration on Tuesday asked a federal court to overturn a lower-court ruling requiring the federal government redesign the nation's paper money to help blind people differentiate between denominations of bills.
Remember when your mom told you not to sit too close to the television, because it would ruin your eyes? Well, how many hours of the day or evening do you spend sitting just a couple of feet from your computer screen?
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Treasury Department is violating the law by failing to design and issue currency that is readily distinguishable to blind and visually impaired people.
ON A VISIT to one of his company's boutiques in 1996, L'Occitane en Provence founder Olivier Baussan noticed a blind woman sampling perfumes. After marveling at the intensity with which she inhaled...
The FDA approved Genentech's drug for age-related vision loss, a potential blockbuster that would treat the leading cause of blindness in older people.
An experimental drug from Eli Lilly & Co. reduces the risk of vision loss in diabetics, who often suffer declining eyesight, according to studies released Sunday.
Genentech is still the darling of the biotech industry. The problem is everyone knows it.
A British eye surgeon says he has come up with a technique that he believes will revolutionize the way cornea transplants are carried out.
When people leave a doctor's office after being seen for a cough they feel better immediately if they are clutching a little piece of paper that a druggist will exchange for a bottle of antibiotics.
A new drug developed by Genentech to treat vision loss could shake up the market for drugs treating age-related blindness, analysts say.
Business 2.0: RNA Interferenceupdated: Fri Oct 01 2004 00:01:00
Discovered just six years ago, RNA interference (RNAI) is now the "it" technology for drug development. RNAI works by destroying strands of messenger RNA responsible for producing harmful proteins....
A great horned owl named Minerva is making history in the treetops of eastern Wisconsin. At least, her eyes are. Veterinarians say she's the only animal in the world, in the wild, with surgically implanted artificial lenses.
The uses for new space technologies developed by NASA and industry professionals are not limited to Earth-orbiting spacecraft. Often such technologies can be spun off into commercial products that better the lives of humans firmly rooted to terra firma.
Fortune: See Me! Hear Me!updated: Mon Oct 27 2003 00:01:00
It's just the kind of dilemma that entrepreneurs like David Green love. The West has cutting-edge, high-tech medicine, but the poor of the world, who sorely need it, can't come close to affording i...
A new chapter is being written in the history of light manipulation. Lenses that return sight to the blind. Smaller ones, the size of a lentil, that make DVD and CD players possible. High-tech ligh...
Americans, it turns out, are wild about having their corneas sliced. Corrective laser eye surgery, which debuted in 1995, is now the most common elective surgical procedure in the United States. Of...
Bionics used to be the stuff of TV fantasy--a 1970s plot device about humans who received mechanical implants to become, well, Lindsay Wagner with reverb sound effects. It took three decades, but t...
Usually machines equipped with Braille remind us that humans are generally compassionate and considerate. But finding Braille on drive-through ATMs is almost as disconcerting as discovering it in t...
If you're one of the millions of Americans on the fence about having laser eye surgery to improve your vision, chances are two things are holding you back. One is the uneasy thought of someone appl...
Saturday mornings in Dr. Barrie Soloway's ophthalmology clinic have the feel of an old-time revival meeting. Maybe not when you first walk into the bright white, marble-floored waiting room: There,...
Hey, no fair! This guy grew up riding ponies and collecting butterflies on an English country estate. He went to fancy private schools. He learned dealmaking from his father. Old money is usually m...
Chances are, you've never heard of Summit Technology in Waltham, Massachusetts. But if you are one of the 60 million or so nearsighted Americans who wear glasses or contact lenses and would prefer ...
About 24 million Americans wear contact lenses. So what? So this: At least half of them probably paid double or more what they could have for their first pair of lenses and subsequent replacements....
Health care spending, as we all know, is so out of control that only a radically new management system can rein it in. But wait a minute: How come costs in America's $12 billion eye care industry -...
The human eye works much like a camera, with the light-absorbing retina that lines the interior wall serving as nature's instant photographic film. A pinhead-size point critical for sharp straight-...
PERESTROIKA, Mikhail Gorbachev's economic restructuring, has been full of surprises. The most startling may be the rise of Svyatoslav Fyodorov, a medical entrepreneur who has all the trappings of G...
- Okay, what's your excuse? You don't like contact lenses because you refuse to spend half your mornings putting them in? Or half your nights cleaning them? You can't bear to crawl around on all fo...
The U.S. eyewear market tops $8 billion a year, not counting $1.8 billion for eye examinations. Yet the family optometrist faces urban extinction, as chains such as Pearle Vision Center (with more ...
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