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.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Marshawn Lynch missed his second straight voluntary practice Monday because he was still recovering from eye surgery.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Leading child welfare groups Tuesday argue that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach when dealing with adoption by white families
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.
Peripheral vision is crucial to survival. It lets you see what's next to you without losing sight of what's in front. It's important whether you're hunting, gathering or running a business. Now imagine life with only peripheral vision. To look ahead, you must turn to the side. And what you see is dim and distorted anyway.
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.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Marshawn Lynch missed his second straight voluntary practice Monday because he was still recovering from eye surgery.
Jennifer Staple runs the Unite For Sight program which started in the U.S., but has branched out into working overseas.
Leading child welfare groups Tuesday argue that black children in foster care are ill-served by a "colorblind" approach when dealing with adoption by white families
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.
Peripheral vision is crucial to survival. It lets you see what's next to you without losing sight of what's in front. It's important whether you're hunting, gathering or running a business. Now imagine life with only peripheral vision. To look ahead, you must turn to the side. And what you see is dim and distorted anyway.
Ivan Castro, a former Army Ranger, gingerly makes his way down the ski slopes, guided by instructors down a snow-packed Idaho mountain. For this Iraq war veteran, his goal is simple: make it from the ski lift down to the bottom of the mountain without falling.
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.
His mother is scheduled to fly to Hawaii with his aunt and cousin, where they plan to board a cruise. But hours before they leave, Lawrence Dean Parrish finds out that their flight schedules have been changed. Now his mother, who is 74 and suffers from glaucoma, is flying solo and his aunt and cousin are on another flight. Neither the travel agency nor the cruise line will help. Is her vacation sunk?
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.
Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn't drive: The blind.
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.
Wal-Mart announced Thursday that it has extended its year-long $4 generic prescription drugs program to include 24 new prescriptions.
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James' court vision might get even better.
The best pitcher in the National League likes to roam San Diego's beachfront and the swank downtown Gaslamp Quarter in Wranglers, beat-up hunting boots, and camouflage T-shirts. Three years ago he dumped agent Scott Boras, whose hardballing style conflicted with his own easygoing nature, a move that might have cost him millions but bought him much peace of mind. Last year a San Diego car dealership gave him a spanking new Hummer, but he preferred the familiar comfort of his white Chevy pickup. "It just wasn't me," Jake Peavy says of the black H2.
The recall of Complete MoisturePlus, which the CDC says may be linked to a blinding eye condition, is just the latest problem for solutions
(AP) -- Tiger Woods was once so nearsighted he said he would be considered legally blind without glasses or contacts. He had Lasik surgery in October 1999 after the Ryder Cup, won the Disney Classic in his first tournament back and has done fairly well since.
The following stocks were among the most actively traded on Monday morning:
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...
AH, VANITY, THY NAME IS...BOOMER?
With, oh, maybe a little touch-up around the edges, you can be the30-year-old you still think you are. (Well, almost.) Here's what it will cost.
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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...
Even if you're in perfect health now, just thinking about the cost of medical care is bound to make you feel a little ill. With the price of everything from hospital visits to prescription drugs up...
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.
Bausch & Lomb said on Monday that it is removing from the market a brand of contact solution that has been linked to fungal infections in the eyes of its customers.
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.
Edward Bailey, 65, lost the sight in his left eye following a workplace accident. After two unsuccessful corneal transplants, he underwent a pioneering stem cell operation that restored his vision. Here is his story:
New uses for old drugs?
Critical time
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.
U.S. health officials are investigating reports that some men who use Viagra and other impotence drugs are getting a rare form of blindness.
Pfizer is in talks with the Food and Drug Administration to update the label on Viagra, its blockbuster treatment for sexual dysfunction, to reflect cases of vision loss in a small number of patients, the company said Friday.
I've never been one for organized networking.
A new drug developed by Genentech to treat vision loss could shake up the market for drugs treating age-related blindness, analysts say.
Genentech Inc. said data from a Phase III clinical study showed that its investigational drug Lucentis maintained or improved vision in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, which causes vision loss.
I've never been one for Organized Networking. My family's business, Cybernet System Management, provides engineering and design services for large food and pharmaceutical manufacturers, but the eng...
A New Jersey man was released on $100,000 bail Tuesday after federal authorities accused him of pointing a laser beam at two aircraft last week.
Law enforcement officers were questioning a Parsippany, New Jersey, man who they say may have pointed a laser beam at an airborne police helicopter Friday night and a Cessna aircraft two nights before, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Six commercial airliners in the past four days have had their cockpits illuminated by laser beams while attempting to land, a government official told CNN Wednesday.
Crossing the road may soon be as straightforward -- and safe -- for blind and visually impaired people as it is for someone with good eyesight, thanks to a new device that acts as an "electronic eye."
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.
The people queue up by the hundreds and wait for hours, sometimes days. But, says Ron Cuevas, 41, "they're always happy to see us." Cuevas, an optometrist with LensCrafters, is part of a group of ...
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...
Do any of the over-the-counter diet pills work?
It started in the late '90s as a rumor, then became a whisper, then a buzz. By last year every cosmetically correct woman on both coasts knew the secret. When you inject Botox--an obscure drug norm...
A new reason to eat spinach
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...
In the fall of 1988, Jordan Kassalow staggered into the lobby of the luxurious Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong with a knapsack on his back and a parasite he'd picked up God-knew-where in his stomach. ...
By now most people know all about laser eye surgery. You walk into a doctor's office with Coke-bottle lenses, and some 30 minutes later walk out with restored vision. Not surprisingly, the number o...
Few groups have benefited from the Web as much as the disabled: They can communicate, shop, and work from the comfort and anonymity of their desktops, freed from the difficulties of getting around,...
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,...
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"If I had it to do over, I wouldn't choose to be blind," says Peter Torpey, 44, a physicist at Xerox's Wilson Research Center near Rochester, New York. "But I have a fun position at work, and I'm a...
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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 ...
Why can Casio sell a calculator more cheaply than Kellogg can sell a box of cornflakes? Does corn cost that much more than silicon?
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-...
SUNRISE TECHNOLOGIES Lasers from this Fremont, California, company make going to the dentist less of a pain. Dentists using instruments from Sunrise can perform minor gum surgery without Novocain; ...
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...
When Janet Sarno's doctor first suggested that she needed an operation to remove her gallbladder, she had little trouble making up her mind. ''I said, 'No way,' '' the New York City actress recalls...
Inevitable as December slush, employee-benefits election forms have been popping up in workers' In boxes around the country in recent weeks. Once again, 'tis the season to make crucial decisions ab...
- 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...
Standing, as they do, between your eyes and the world, contact lenses gather grime from both sources: mucus, oil and proteins from the eye; dust, smoke and hair spray, to name a few pollutants, fro...
One runs into Michael Kinsley quite a lot these days. He edits the New Republic, writes for all the heavyweight op-ed pages, keeps turning up on the more serious talk shows, and has occasionally wr...
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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