Vision & Health Blog
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On Tech & Vision Podcast
Cortical Brain Implants Are Paving the Way for Visual Restorative Medicine
Today’s big idea highlights how innovations don’t happen in a vacuum, but rather a long chain of science and research and developments that build on each other. Dr. Shelley Fried’s work exemplifies this process.
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Optical devices and vision rehabilitation may help you adapt
See Better With Low-Vision Solutions About 4 million older adults are believed to have low vision–vision impairment that can’t be corrected with glasses or contact…
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Tele-Support Talks
Building Resilience in Children and Teens
Join us for a discussion about the psychological underpinning of resilience and learn some strategies for optimizing it in the home.
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On Tech & Vision Podcast
Remote Diagnostic Testing and the Machine Learning Revolution
Today’s big idea is: How will remote diagnostic tests change ophthalmology and vision care? It might be a foreign concept for some, but the specialists in today’s episode, Dr. Peter Pham and Dr. Sean Ianchulev, founders of (Keep Your Sight, a nonprofit focused on remote diagnostic vision tests) share how they can conduct more reliable perimetry tests that help detect macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other conditions that lead to vision loss and eventually blindness — remotely, while patients stay home.
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Tele-Support Talks
Empowering Parents
During this presentation, we will discuss the difficult task that parents have of meeting the needs of a child with visual impairment while taking care of themselves.
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Why People Who Are Blind Need COVID-19 Vaccinations Now
Lighthouse Guild Calls for States to Expand Eligibility and Access Who should be next in line to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States?…
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Vision for Life Virtual Forum: What You Need to Know to Prevent Vision Loss During COVID-19 and Beyond
Dr. April Jasper and Dr. Terrence P. O’Brien join Dr. Calvin W. Roberts to provide insights on what you can do to maintain good…
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Dry Macular Degeneration
What is Dry Macular Degeneration? Dry macular degeneration is a common eye disorder among people over 50. It causes blurred or reduced central vision, due…
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Fantastic New Tech for People With Low Vision or Blindness
Innovative devices help those with sight-stealing eye conditions navigate the world Low vision affects an estimated 12 million adults over 40 in the U.S., often…
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On Tech & Vision Podcast
How the Simple QR Code Became an Empowering Navigation Tool
This episode’s big idea is navigation and how to implement a navigation solution that enables people with vision impairment to broadly travel cities — how and when they want to, independently. Dr. Roberts talks with Javier Pita, the creator of such a technology called NaviLens, which marries location finding with information.
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