Blind people amongst those worst affected by cost of living crisis October 28, 2022 | City Talk The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) conducted a survey recently, asking 125 blind and visually impaired individuals to explain how the cost of living crisis was affecting them. The cost of living crisis has become a focal point for the government and a point of concern for the public in recent months. Soaring [...]
Six facts you may not know about gender and blindness October 24, 2022 | City Talk Women make up 55% of the world’s visually impaired, that is around 609 million women. Women are 12% more likely to develop some form of visual impairment and have 8% higher chances of becoming entirely blind compared to men. As women’s life expectancies are longer, they are more likely to develop age-related eye problems such [...]
Promising research on synthetic corneas from London university October 17, 2022 | City Talk Aisha Memon, graduate from University College London and Dr Hirak Patra, Associate Professor of Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicine at the University College London. The cornea is an avascular and clear structure present in the anterior part of the eye. It is responsible for mechanical support and protection as well as for light refraction, making it [...]
Tears of happiness: How curing blindness in Dolakha saved a girls future October 14, 2022 | City Talk Dolakha is located in northeastern Nepal. Popular amongst tourists and natives, its natural beauty, cultural sites and array of hiking trails attract people from far and wide. One of the largest attractions in the area is the Bhimsen Temple, a site dedicated to one of the brothers in the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata. The temple [...]
The Tej Kohli Ruit Foundation joins World Sight Day 2022 pledge October 13, 2022 | City Talk Today marks World Sight Day 2022. Many ophthalmologists and eye care organisations all over the world are preparing for the day by pledging their eye screenings to IAPB (International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness) World Sight Day campaign. This year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is pledging 27,472 eye screenings that have taken [...]
We Should Deploy The Lessons of Covid to Combat Needless Blindness October 13, 2022 | City Talk World Sight Day (13 October) is an international day of awareness to focus the attention on the global issues of eye health. The hashtag for this year’s World Sight Day is #LoveYourEyes. Unfortunately, most of those most in need will not get to engage with this sentiment. Over 90% of the world’s 40 million blind [...]
One march that paved that way for social reform October 12, 2022 | City Talk With World Sight Day just around the corner, taking a look back to a moment that helped shape the nation’s support of visually impaired people seems fitting. In ancient times, blindness was associated with intelligence and creativity – take Homer for example, one of the most celebrated authors of all time. There are blind characters [...]
Glasses designer Tom Davies on why he supports sight-saving charity, Orbis UK October 11, 2022 | City Talk Vaishnavi Kumari, aged 5 from India, after receiving cataract surgery from Orbis. Photo by Geoff Bugbee for Orbis UK
Advances in eye health October 7, 2022 | City Talk May Griffith, PhD, Marie-Claude Robert, MD, Samir Jabbour, MD, and Isabelle Brunette, MD Department of Ophthalmology, Université de Montréal The first-in-human attempt to regenerate the human cornea was a team effort led by May Griffith, who is currently a Université de Montréal (UdeM) professor of ophthalmology. Together with Isabelle Brunette and the Swedish clinical trial [...]
Shri Mani: A story of success after sight is restored October 6, 2022 | City Talk The Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation shares a story of a patient in Nepal that was cured of needless cataract blindness in 2021. Shri Mani Rai lives in the remote area of the Himalayan outback and suffered with cataract-induced blindness for many years without any medical treatment. With access to the area restricted due to [...]