Many types of blindness can affect many people. These can range from ocular impairments to brain-based disorders and vision loss which exist on the spectrum. The majority of people think blindness is defined by a person who cannot see. However, it is a bit more complex than this.
UN researchers are set to publish their strongest statement yet on the science of climate change.
The report will likely detail significant changes to the world’s oceans, ice caps, and land in the coming decades.
In the third part of The Repairability Report, a four-part article series from Maddyness UK and France, we look at the legislations made in France to limit e-waste and become the leader in the European Union.
New gene therapy could eventually provide an alternative treatment for Fuchs’ endothelial corneal dystrophy, a genetic eye disease that affects roughly one in 2,000 people globally.
Until recently, researchers could mainly observe the eye cornea through a close microscope contact with living, or dead cells. Many efforts and different methods have been attempted at MIT, Harvard, and other prestigious academic centers worldwide to develop this method.
SEOUL — South Korea’s drug ministry paved a way for a new treatment of corneal disorders by approving artificial corneas as an innovative medical device for the first time. The ministry said the device will provide new treatment opportunities for patients suffering from severe eye problems which can lead to blindness.
