Sunglasses can help people with blindness — and those with full sight likewise — protect their eyes from bright lights and foreign objects. It’s a stereotype that the main reason blind ...

The tactile paintings work as a way to reveal art to the blind because we don’t see with just our eyes: We see with our ... is stimulated by touch. Blind people perceive shapes with their ...

affecting more than a million people every year, with an age-standardized incidence rate being 6.9 per 100,000 of the population. Close to 40 per cent of those who have never smoked also get lung ...

For people who are blind, everyday tasks such as sorting through the mail or doing a load of laundry present a challenge. But what if they could “borrow” the eyes of someone who could see?

The light-receiving cells in their eyes had been deteriorating ... loss of central vision. People with the condition still have peripheral vision but have blind spots in their central vision ...

Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink has some new competition as a company whose founding members were previously at Neuralink announced a new eye implant capable of enabling blind people ...

Someone is legally blind if their central vision in their better eye is 20/200 or less, even with correction. If you have blindness, you must be 20 feet or closer to see something a person with ...

An award-winning disability advocate is leaving New Zealand saying it is the worst country in the Western world in which to ...

One thousand blind people’s lives were changed – thanks ... This time, he paid for a simple, 10-minute eye surgery for 1,000 patients who could not afford it, giving some their vision back ...