Thousands of blind and partially sighted people are being denied their right to support after sight loss, a charity has said. A new report by the sight-loss charity RNIB suggests
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Thousands of British children with a blinding arthritic disease stand a chance of preserving their sight with a combination of drugs, trial results have shown. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) can
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Facebook is training its computers to become seeing-eye guides for blind and visually impaired people as they scroll through the pictures posted on the world’s largest online social network. The
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“Extremely distressing” attacks on guide dogs by other dogs are on the increase, topping more than 100 a year, according to a new study. Figures published in the online journal
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Almost 12,500 elderly people who are blind or partially sighted are the latest “casualties” of a crisis in social care, two charities have warned. Age UK and the Royal National
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The number of children registered blind or partially sighted has risen as survival rates for severely premature babies improve, according to new findings. There has been a 9% rise in
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