Activities For The Blind | Blindness News for 07/30/2010

Grand Lake Sickens Celina Man, Kills Family Pet
Doctors said they believe this is the first case of human illness that has been caused by the toxins in Grand Lake St...

Disney's sale of Miramax: a new era is here
The fact that Miramax, the "little company that could" has shut up shop reflects wider financial woes in Hollywood...

Blog - FDA Lets Human Embryonic Stem Cells Trials Resume
Geron will begin tests of its therapy for spinal cord injury. Advanced Cell Technology hopes to follow with a stem cell treatment for blindness. The Food and Drug Administration has cleared Geron, a stem cell company based in Menlo Park, CA, to move forward with clinical tests of its experimental cell therapy for spinal cord injury, which is derived from embryonic stem cells. The company, which ...

Seeing Forrest through the trees
Q: In the movie "Forrest Gump," Forrest's mother tries to convince the elementary-school principal to allow her son to attend public school...

Foundation Fighting Blindness on The CBS Early Show | Susan Davis .
A father and his son, who is losing his sight, biked from California to New York City to raise money for a cure for blindness...

Advances in the battle against blindness - SmartPlanet
Bringing hope to people facing congenital blindness, researchers announced last year a gene therapy treatment that restored some vision in children wi...

Safety and Efficacy of Gene Transfer for Leber's Congenital .
Drs. Maguire and Bennett report being coinventors on a pending patent for EURœa method of treating or retarding the development of blindnessEUR and collaborating on studies involving novel AAV serotypes and retinal-cell tropism supported by ...

Law enforcement agencies to test new type of non-lethal weapon
Law enforcement agencies in the Northwest are preparing to test a new kind of non-lethal weapon...

This food is just fine
Doomsayers relax: we can, in fact, feed the population of nine billion the world is expected to have by 2050...

Research to help people born with 'face blindness'
A specific area in our brains is responsible for processing information about human and animal faces, both how we recognize them and how we interpret facial expressions. Now, Tel Aviv University research is exploring what makes this highly specialized part of the brain unique, a first step to finding practical applications for that information...

Gene Therapy for Color Blindness EUR” NEJM
Clinical Implications of Basic Research from The New England Journal of Medicine EUR” Gene Therapy for Color Blindness...

Around the Region - July 30
POLICE BEAT Convenience store robbery suspect ID'd Gainesville police have identified a suspect in a Wednesday convenience store robbery and are obtaining a warrant for his arrest...

Is Face-Blindness Curable? | Psychology Today
Yet, the ability to identify another's face varies from person to person, and a small but significant minority of the population struggle with facial recognition. They may suffer from varying degrees of "face-blindness" or, ...

Faith-healing parents win extended in-home visits with ailing daughter
The Beavercreek couple facing criminal charges for failing to provide adequate medical care to their 7-month-old daughter will have extended visits five days a week with the child...

Jolica Foundation Pleased to Announce Launch of New 'Gift of Sight' Project in India
The Jolica Foundation is pleased to announce its new project that launched July 1, 2010. The Gift of Sight project focuses on communities in southern India by both preventing and curing blindness. Blindness is prevented in children under the age of 5 by providing Vitamin A supplements and many instances of adult blindness can be remedied by cataract surgery. Every $1021 in retail sales of Jolica ...

Cincinnati's Just OK
After nearly eight years, I'm afraid our relationship just isn't working out. I'm sorry, it's not you...

Scientists look to seahorses in battle against blindness
The beady eyes of the humble seahorse could provide the clues scientists need to restore sight in people with age-related blindness...

Change Blindness: Can You See the Changes in Your Industry? | BNET
Everyone thinks they will see big changes, but experiments prove that we don't. What businesses need to do is start from the assumption they wil...

Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
Mutations in a gene known as "Fritz" may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, University of Texas at Austin developmental biologist John Wallingford and Duke University human geneticist and cell biologist Nicholas Katsanis have found...

Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
( University of Texas at Austin ) Mutations in a gene known as "Fritz" may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, University of Texas at Austin developmental biologist John Wallingford and Duke University human geneticist and cell biologist Nicholas Katsanis have found...

Geron says FDA lifts hold on stem cell trial
Regulators on Friday gave the all-clear to a clinical trial that will test embryonic stem cells as a treatment for spinal cord injury, potentially the first time embryonic stem cells are tested on humans...

Colorful Kayaks and Snow Blindness | The Passionate Landscape
By evening, my tired eyes were stinging badly and I realized I was again the victim of snow blindness, ultraviolet keratitis, a condition I first experienced when Dad moved us to Alaska in the early '50s. Basically, sunburn of the eyes, ...

Hoffman loan interest is morally indefensible
Wouldn't it be great to get a 7.5 percent return on your investments? A recent Times article explained how Doug Hoffman gets 7.5 percent by loaning money to his own campaign...

Heo Jun, a Joseon-era court physician and the author of the
Heo Jun, a Joseon-era court physician and the author of the medical encyclopedia Donguibogam, is quoted in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, as telling King Seonjo: I am not very good at acupuncture...

George Osborne's Irish blindness | Ben Chu | Independent Eagle Eye .
Osborne has failed to recognise the similarities between what happened in Ireland and what happened in Britain in the past decade. Britain, like Ireland, was reliant on revenues from a banking and property bubble...

Faith-healing parents win extended in-home visits with ailing daughter
The Beavercreek couple facing criminal charges for failing to provide adequate medical care to their 7-month-old daughter will be allowed extended visits five days a week with their child, who will remain in temporary state custody...

Creative vision
SWEET HOME Deborah Feigum doesnt consider her blindness adisability...

USIBC applauds Abbott for 100 years of improving healthcare in India
Today the U.S.-India Business Council saluted Abbott Laboratories for 100 years of improving healthcare in India...

Egham student in Vietnam mercy mission
AN EGHAM student from has been selected to visit Vietnam as part of a sight-saving charity mission...

GM bananas could cut blindness, anaemia in East Africa
[KAMPALA] Bio-fortified bananas that could reduce blindness, diarrhoea and anaemia are a step closer, according to the preliminary results of a joint research project between Ugandan and Australian scientists...

New tablet for type 2 diabetics
A new tablet for people with type 2 diabetes promises to lower blood glucose levels without the side effects of other medications, doctors say...

Obama orders agencies to increase employment of disabled workers
President Obama issued an executive order Monday instructing federal agencies to take steps to increase employment of people with disabilities...

Said the Gramophone: Blisters and Blindness
Blisters and Blindness. Genesis - "Aisle of Plenty". When Peter Gabriel's Genesis warns of proliferating poisonous plant-life, it behooves you to listen. Their song "Return of the Giant Hogweed" is a disquietingly prescient example: the ...

Making Sense of a Face
Are you the type who remembers a face but not the persona TMs name? Or, perhaps you remember the face but cannot place the context from which you know the individual? According to researchers, the trouble may be in your neurons...

USIBC Salutes Abbott Laboratories for 100 Years of Improving Healthcare in India
Today the U.S.-India Business Council saluted Abbott Laboratories for 100 years of improving healthcare in India...

Billerbeck Takes on Teens in Perfectly Dateless
If this one doesn't earn a nomination for the 2011 Christy Awards for "Young Adult," I'll be shocked...

Blind Medina County cyclist fighting cancer begins ride across Ohio
CLEVELAND -- Chuck Coleman, of Medina County, never let blindness stop him from riding a bicycle...

Potential benefits of immunisation
Open Forum with Jimmy Carter & Kofi Annan VACCINES have saved the lives of millions of children around the world, and have the potential to save millions more in the future as newer vaccines are developed and introduced...

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