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Glaucoma is a serious disease which, if left untreated, can cause blindness. A professor of optometry explains the risks, process of diagnosis and available treatments.
Audio description began as an accessibility aid but has developed into an art form.
The causes of most inherited forms of blindness are unknown. Now more than 260 genes never before linked to eye development could lead to new therapies and diagnostics.
Simply closing your eyes will protect your eyes from sunlight. But looking straight at it can cause serious damage.
A new study has been examining what holds back sight-impaired users from using smartphones, computers and the internet.
Blind people don’t have superhuman ears but their brains can rewire themselves to give them an edge over those who can see.
Turkish painter Esref Armagan uses colour and perspective that he has never seen.
Stem cell treatments for eye disease always seem to be just on the horizon, but real progress is being made.
Some thought technology would make braille redundant – but the real threat is a lack of education and resources.
This is what it’s like going to the cinema when you can’t see the screen.
A successful gene therapy for the leading cause of sight loss in children is being reviewed by the FDA.
There is value in including different populations in genetic research studies as has been shown in a study on exfoliation syndrome, which leads to glaucoma.
Glaucoma is a slow and silent progressive disease and the second leading cause of blindness, that requires early diagnosis.
A proposed tweak to the copyright laws should make it easier to reversion protected works for people with disabilities.
Glaucoma is the sneak thief of sight, affecting the eyesight of more than 50 million people worldwide. It remains the biggest preventable cause of blindness today.
Light arriving from the right visual field is processed in the brain’s left hemisphere. So damage to the left part of the primary visual cortex will result in blindness in the right visual field.
More than a million Australians have an untreated cataract and hundreds of cataract surgeries are performed daily, but what are they?
Trachoma easily spreads from one child to another through infected eye and nose secretions. A person may have up to 40 episodes of reinfection during childhood.
Macular degeneration affects the part of the eye that allows you to see fine detail. Age-related macular degeneration is the main cause of blindness in Australia.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professeur Titulaire. École d'optométrie. Expertise en santé oculaire et usage des lentilles cornéennes spécialisées, Université de Montréal
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UniSA Creative, Adelaide University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity, Liverpool Hope University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Hugh Taylor is a Friend of The Conversation.
Melbourne Laureate Professor, Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Research Professor of Rehabilitation Education and Research, Mississippi State University
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Research Associate, University of Bath
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Academic Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Research Program, Queensland University of Technology
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Research Fellow at National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University
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Reader in Neuroprosthesis, Newcastle University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Bath