By Staff
Monday, December 2, 2024 12:24 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, a nonprofit eye health organization, announced Dec. 2-8, 2024 as its fourth annual Geographic Atrophy (GA) Awareness Week. GA is an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration that approximately 1 million people in the U.S. are estimated to have.
By Staff
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 12:21 AM
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—
The Vision Council has released a new research report featuring a comprehensive analysis of the experiences, diagnoses, information sources and treatment options for patients with low vision, as well as the impact on their caregivers. The report, Focused inSights 2024: Low Vision, combines qualitative data from two focus groups with quantitative data from a nationally representative survey of patients and primary caregivers of children with low vision, according to an announcement from The Vision Council.
By Staff
Thursday, February 2, 2023 12:24 AM
CHICAGO—As part of February’s Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Awareness Month,
Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, is offering free resources to the public to help educate and empower individuals, and their care partners, to make informed decisions about their vision and eye health. AMD is an eye disease that is a leading cause of vision loss for Americans ages 50 and older. It affects central vision, where sharpest vision occurs, causing difficulty conducting daily tasks such as driving, reading and recognizing faces.
By Staff
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 12:21 AM
BATTLE CREEK, Mich.—
Kellogg Company is changing the way the almost 12 million adults in the U.S. who are blind or have low vision perform daily tasks, such as navigating a grocery store aisle or choosing one's cereal at breakfast.
By Staff
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 12:27 AM
CHICAGO—Prevent Blindness, will be holding the inaugural A.S.P.E.C.T. Patient Advocacy and Engagement Summit, May 9-11, 2022, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Summit will bring together trainees, allies, and program sponsors from across the country. Founded in 2020, the
A.S.P.E.C.T. (Advocacy, Support, Perspective Empowerment, Communication and Training) Patient Engagement program at Prevent Blindness aims to equip participants with knowledge, skills, and confidence to become advocates for vision and eye health at the individual, peer-to-peer, community, state, and/or national levels.
By Staff
Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:21 AM
NEW YORK—Advances like artificial intelligence, program learning, virtual reality, facial recognition, and 5G are becoming available to benefit people who are blind and visually impaired. To help New Yorkers with vision loss access these and other technologies,
Lighthouse Guild is opening a state-of-the-art technology center here.