Sleepaway summer camp can be a lifechanging experience for a kid, bringing friendship, independence and a chance to learn new things.

A woman with a visual impairment who joined a befriending service has spoken about the boost it has given to her confidence.

Pathologic myopia is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness. While deep learning-based approaches aid in recognizing pathologic myopia using color fundus photography, they often rely on ...

Born on April 23, 1974, in Tuscaloosa, Shane Watkins arrived into a loving home with parents Michael and Suzanne Watkins.

A young Vermonter is unlocking a world of learning through braille. This is a story about the power of a proper diagnosis and ...

Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a rare but severe ocular condition that often results in significant visual impairment or blindness. We aimed to determine whether ARN exhibits a distinct ...

By Betty Liedtke I was talking recently with one of my neighbors, who is an Orientation and Mobility Specialist. She works with students who are visually impaired, helping them to orient themselves to ...

What is Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI)? CVI refers to a brain condition, not an eye condition and results from damage to the visual systems in the brain that deal with processing and integrating ...

Self-reported visual difficulty had a limited ability to identify adults with objectively measured visual impairment, according to an analysis of data from a nationally representative sample of ...

There have been testimonies of restored sight as more than 2,000 people accessed healthcare services in an outreach organised in Lagos as part of the Vision First initiative of the Nigerian National ...

The researchers observed that participants with visual impairment had a higher risk for CVD compared with those without visual impairment (HR = 1.24; 95% CI, 1.09-1.4).