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Items Tagged with 'blindness'

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Hi viz blindness – is it time to rethink PPE?

January 8, 2016
A year or so ago a major waste company placed 12 street cleaners, wearing yellow hi viz coats in a busy out of town shopping complex and asked shoppers coming out how many they remembered seeing.
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Blind man regains sight after 33 years with “Bionic Eye”

March 30, 2015

Larry Hester was 33 years old when he got horrible news, according to a report produced by WebMD and ABC News, and broadcast on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”


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Scientist stumbles onto a cure for color blindness

New glasses may let sufferers see the spectrum
April 5, 2013

Out in the world, one out of every 10 men have some form of color blindness, according to Yahoo! News. While it’s not the most debilitating genetic irregularity, color blindness can still make everyday tasks, such as getting dressed, difficult.


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Blindness treated by implantable telescope lens

April 1, 2013

Three Maryland patients have received implantable miniature telescopes (IMTs) to reverse the blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to the website The Inquisitr. The announcement came from the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, which also participated in the trials to earn FDA approval for the device in 2010.


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Weekly news round-up

March 30, 2013

Finally- there’s some movement on OSHA’s silica rule; Canada prepares for a Day of Mourning for workers killed or injured in the workplace; companies plan to change healthcare benefits and school safety recommendations are issued – all in the week’s top OEHS-related stories as featured on ISHN.com:


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Blindness and vision loss spike by 23 percent in the U.S.

Eye doctors recommend prevention and early detection
March 26, 2013

Blindness and vision impairment are on the rise in the United States. A recent report by Prevent Blindness America indicates that, since the year 2000, incidence of blindness and vision impairment has increased by 23 percent among Americans age 40 and older.


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Encourage your employees to use their vision benefits

April 25, 2012

As the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization, Prevent Blindness America has established a goal of dramatically increasing the number of Americans who regularly receive eye exams.


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Diabetic eye disease educator program goes live

April 24, 2012

Prevent Blindness America is pleased to announce the availability of its Diabetic Eye Disease Educator Program online.


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Blindness: Total loss of vision is rare

April 24, 2012

The term "blindness" can have many connotations and is difficult to define precisely. To many people, blindness refers to the complete loss of vision with no remaining perception of light.


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Women must act to avoid vision loss

April 24, 2012

Every year, more women than men are diagnosed with eye diseases and conditions such as cataracts, dry eye, Fuchs’ dystrophy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and Sjögren’s syndrome.


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