Glaucoma is a slow and silent progressive disease and the second leading cause of blindness, that requires early diagnosis.
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A proposed tweak to the copyright laws should make it easier to reversion protected works for people with disabilities.
Glaucoma is the sneak thief of sight, affecting the eyesight of more than 50 million people worldwide. It remains the biggest preventable cause of blindness today.
Light arriving from the right visual field is processed in the brain’s left hemisphere. So damage to the left part of the primary visual cortex will result in blindness in the right visual field.
More than a million Australians have an untreated cataract and hundreds of cataract surgeries are performed daily, but what are they?
Trachoma easily spreads from one child to another through infected eye and nose secretions. A person may have up to 40 episodes of reinfection during childhood.
Macular degeneration affects the part of the eye that allows you to see fine detail. Age-related macular degeneration is the main cause of blindness in Australia.
The next generation of neuroprosthetics could communicate directly with the brain to tackle diseases such as epilepsy and blindness.
In Tanzania, where albinism is common, there’s plenty that ordinary teachers can do to support students with albinism – much of it quite simple.
Cataract blindness continues to affects tens of millions of people because they cannot access proper care.
There aren’t enough eye surgeons to perform all the cataract ops that are needed. Luckily, a solution might be at hand.
A blind academic says a new campaign by the RNIB is offensive.
Scientists have discovered that the high pressure in the eye that occurs with most common forms of glaucoma can trigger two genes that work together to cause vision loss, which may help pave the way for new glaucoma drugs.
Why is it still so common that blind people are presumed to be unemployed?
With the emergence of online technologies, the visually impaired can no longer depend on braille alone for their learning needs. App developers are stepping up to the challenge.
We live in a visual world and build environments that rely heavily on visual perception. Want to find somewhere? You look on a map or read a road sign. Perhaps the GPS on your touch screen smartphone can…
Scientists have proposed a way to monitor glaucoma using a tiny device implanted in the eye. Readings from the device could be monitored by a smartphone. The technology could help prevent some people from…
In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America, there is a parasitic worm that infects about 25m people, causing serious skin diseases, epilepsy and blindness. Known as Onchocerca volvulus, it can live…
An estimated 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Some 90% of those live in developing nations, where less than 1% of the world’s books are available in a form they can read. In developed…
Even in a world of digital devices, braille continues to be a vital part of life for blind people. For nearly 200 years, this versatile writing system has allowed them to learn, work and live in a more…
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Clinical Associate Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professeur Titulaire. École d'optométrie. Expertise en santé oculaire et usage des lentilles cornéennes spécialisées, Université de Montréal
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Lecturer in Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Professor of Rehabilitation Education and Research, Mississippi State University
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Melbourne Laureate Professor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity, Liverpool Hope University
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Associate Professor in Psychological Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Human Molecular Genetics, UCL
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Professor of Epidemiology & Preventative Medicine, Monash University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
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PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Associate Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology, La Trobe University
