But the line between willful blindness and unconscious blindness is frustratingly thin.
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And, unlike ocular blindness—the kind of blindness in the popular imagination—CVI improves with dedicated interventions.
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Davey's own blindness as a result of multiple sclerosis is connected to Jarman's blindness as a result of AIDS-related complications.
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John surveyed the cultural representations of blindness himself, it was part of his process [of coming to terms with his blindness].
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That's right, tree blindness—and the broader concept of blindness to the natural world—might be the real danger screens pose to vision.
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Their results, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, showed that these organisms did indeed experience varying degrees of blindness, including near total blindness.
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Also, color-blindness isn't just one thing: There are actually several types of color-blindness that vary in their severity and in the colors affected.
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But the California researchers believed these phones could do something extraordinary -- help quell river blindness, the second-leading cause of preventable blindness in the world.
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The End Fund is working mightily to eradicate elephantiasis and other "neglected tropical diseases," including river blindness and trachoma, both excruciatingly painful causes of blindness.
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Pete: Marilyn always points out that the film, whilst being the story of John's adjustment to blindness, is not just about blindness—it's about loss.
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This wasn't as clear to me before, and I found myself thinking less about blindness in my future and more about the blindness in my past.
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Bath is also an advocate for preventing and curing blindness and founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, DC. Thank you, Dr. Bath!
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Now, the rapper-actor-author is turning his sights towards blindness, and teaming up with See America, Allergan's initiative to fight against preventable blindness in the United States.
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This phenomenon, known as "eclipse blindness," can cause temporary or permanent vision impairment, and in worst-case scenarios can lead to legal blindness, which entails significant loss of vision.
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WE ANNOUNCED ONE ON TUESDAY, A GENE THERAPY FOR BLINDNESS THAT IS EARLY, BUT VERY INTERESTING AND VERY EXCITING FOR PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM A CERTAIN RARE FORM OF BLINDNESS.
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A few years ago, Kyle Hill, writing at Slate, suggested an alternate explanation: widespread face blindness, or prosopagnosia:The test for face blindness is more straightforward than you might suspect.
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This phenomenon, known as 'eclipse blindness,' can cause temporary or permanent vision impairment, and in worst-case scenarios can lead to legal blindness, which entails significant loss of vision.
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Sarah Fulton, Flint Hill School, Oakton, Va.: The psychological term "choice blindness" and "Why Trump Supporters Don't Mind His Lies" In psychology, we learned about a term: choice blindness.
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And that blindness makes community — real community — impossible.
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While there are still no reported cases of people with congenital cortical blindness, there might be a few people who were born blind with peripheral blindness who did develop schizophrenia.
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Tasked to train See's sighted cast members playing characters who are blind, Strechay began the blindness training on set with lessons on education and awareness to address misconceptions about blindness.
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"Swelling comprised about 0.01% of all injections," Rayess said Blindness was involved in eight injections in the study, and nasal injections were significantly associated with blindness, the researchers found, though rare.
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" There we encounter the "apogee of Freud's willful blindness.
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" As an exploration of rising above visual impairment — "blindness . . .
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Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness (Gear VR): An immersive VR project based on John Hull's sensory and psychological experience of blindness, as documented in an audio diary he began recording in 1983.
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And, of course, blindness didn't impair her ability to count.
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If left untreated, syphilis can cause blindness, infertility, and strokes.
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Blindness, in Japan, has a long association with spiritual powers.
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"What happened here was, in effect, willful blindness," Blumenthal continued.
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Some are "anomalous trichromats," a common form of color blindness.
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Getting the "sap" in your eyes can cause permanent blindness.
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But now we see the consequences of this class blindness.
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Spark's blindness therapy Luxturna is priced at $2224.18,21 per patient.
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Not to mention nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, blindness, and coma.
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That blindness is one of the oldest objections to anger.
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People up to 53 miles away could experience temporary blindness.
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It's not just future shock; we now have future blindness.
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Anthony ScaramucciAnthony ScaramucciWill Republicans continue to engage in willful blindness?
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Other risks include infection, inflammation, blindness, and even losing eyes.
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The tech world does suffer from a certain moral blindness.
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The river blindness medication, ivermectin, kills these baby worms effectively.
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The willful blindness sometimes feels like a stab at utopia.
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Potential blindness aside, Nelly Furtado is the best date ever.
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His reflections, recorded over years, show him fighting his blindness.
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The blindness idea fed into every [creative] choice we made.
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But here's the good news: Tree blindness can be cured.
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They are hidden by stale language, misleading histories, willful blindness.
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It also became an exercise in preventing blindness to reality.
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HUGH R. PARRY President and Chief Executive Prevent Blindness Chicago
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With eye involvement, corneal ulcers and sometimes blindness can occur.
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What is it about color blindness that creates a problem?
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And to see my own privilege and blindness as well.
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Kavanaugh represents the partisan blindness in Washington at its peak.
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Spark's blindness therapy Luxturna is priced at $2224.18,000 per patient.
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Cortical blindness is caused by an issue in the part of the brain that processes vision, whereas peripheral blindness is a problem in the eyes instead—but the visual part of the brain is okay.
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CVI is a neurological blindness, sometimes also called Cerebral Visual Impairment.
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For example, there is more than one kind of congenital blindness.
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He also engendered the myth that masturbation causes blindness and insanity.
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The cultivated blindness that we humans have become so good at.
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The most common type of colour blindness, for example, is deuteranopia.
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The other was "gender blindness" which downplays differences between the sexes.
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Some of the central liberal metaphors involve the virtue of blindness.
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He conveys the constitutively human trifecta of responsibility, impotence, and blindness.
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Blindness didn't stop her from pursuing her dream of pole vaulting.
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Blindness and deafness were possibilities for him, if he even survived.
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I have had this willful blindness on so many occasions, Confused.
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Raxone treats Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, which can lead to blindness.
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Even those up to 53 miles away could experience temporary blindness.
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But the particular nature of this family blindness remains frustratingly unexamined.
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Cosby, whose blindness is due to glaucoma, often grips Wyatt's elbow.
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He was determined to prove that blindness was not the end.
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I have white face blindness and will forget these characters instantly.
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Pete: The VR focuses John's perceptive and sensory experience of blindness.
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Let's engage this blindness and ask why we may experience discomfort.
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The poet had, in fact, faked his blindness to escape danger.
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Untreated diabetes can lead to blindness, amputation, kidney failure, and death.
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That's why the organization has teamed up with Prevent Blindness, another nonprofit trying to end avoidable blindness, to petition Congress to dole out way more than the $3.8 million spent currently on preventative vision loss efforts.
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When correcting blindness in mice, researchers at Columbia University found that though CRISPR did manage to successfully edit the particular gene responsible for blindness, it also caused mutations to more than a thousand other unintended genes.
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And, for the record, "eclipse blindness is actually a thing," she says.
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Failure to do so could result in permanent blindness or eye damage.
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It's hard, especially given Trump's daily acts of blindness towards the Constitution.
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There are at least two recorded cases of something called smartphone blindness.
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Recently, seven countries eliminated trachoma, the world's leading infectious cause of blindness.
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Untreated, they can lead to serious health problems, including blindness and infertility.
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The dazzle effect can trigger temporary blindness, with "catastrophic" consequences, Marshall said.
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But as he likes to say, blindness isn't very effective on him.
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In her fourth year at school, that was when her blindness began.
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The damage can cause progressive deterioration in vision, potentially leading to blindness.
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His avoidance of such an obviously important court ruling is willful blindness.
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The infectious eye disorder Trachoma can also affect the cornea, causing blindness.
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My blindness had been selective, willful even — how else to explain it?
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Spark's blindness therapy Luxturna for instance is priced at $850,000 per patient.
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How much other research has been done on blindness and psychedelic use?
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It can lead to organ damage, stroke, blindness, severe pain and death.
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But he believes that blindness can be ended in all affected countries.
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And Violette's blindness to her son's behavior becomes a relatively unexploited joke.
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More severe burns can lead to decreased visual sharpness, or even blindness.
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Since 1978, the country has had a nonprofit devoted to fighting blindness.
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For her, blindness was delayed, but it was coming all the same.
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Measles can also cause blindness and encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.
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Eye disease, with the specter of blindness, has become a dreaded complication.
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Liberals tend to see in them a conservative blindness to sexual misconduct.
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The condition can be dangerous, with some complications including blindness and stroke.
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"Notes on Blindness" avoids the sentimental pitfalls of a documentary this personal.
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I lived in a state of self-imposed blindness, never seeking truth.
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Other possible complications of shingles include pneumonia, hearing problems, blindness and encephalitis.
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Blindness wasn't a choice for him; why should it be for me?
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" But he insisted, "Blindness does not cut me off from the world.
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"80 percent of global blindness is treatable or preventable," the foundation said.
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"River blindness affects an estimated 32.7 million people worldwide," the foundation said.
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What's going on here is some mix of ignorance and willful blindness.
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Blindness wasn't a choice for him; why should it be for me?
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The statistics about blindness, quoted in the wall text, are fairly staggering.
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By the same token, her blindness is not an end but a beginning.
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If the larvae travel into someone's eyes, they can eventually lead to blindness.
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They warn of the potential for severe eye infections and even partial blindness.
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Applications range from speech-to-text transcription to detecting early signs of blindness.
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Untreated, it can lead to serious complications such as kidney failure and blindness.
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The option was great for people with brightness sensitivity or some color blindness.
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This puts pressure on the optic nerve, slowly damaging it and causing blindness.
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One fifth of them will be at increased risk for total, permanent blindness.
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Even the smallest amount of exposure can cause blurry vision or temporary blindness.
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During this frequent short blindness, researchers can opportunistically change the world around us.
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This view aspires towards the condition of "race-blindness," rather than acknowledging complicity.
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A side-effect of poor diabetes control can be blindness, caused by retinopathy.
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How much longer can politicians at the federal level maintain their willful blindness?
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Vitamin A capsules costing 2 cents a dose have reduced blindness as well.
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Furthermore, blindness is a significant issue for our veterans of the armed forces.
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At least two cases of blindness from malnutrition have been reported this year.
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For much of my life, I'd imagined I was handicapped by emotional blindness.
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The Portuguese author won the Nobel prize a few years after publishing Blindness.
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The film is a window into the largely unknown world of deaf-blindness.
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Explore as far as he might, that's a blindness he does not escape.
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" Read more " Trachoma, a bacterial infection, is the world's leading cause of blindness.
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Each concluded that blindness isn't the real problem; society's responses to it is.
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This documentary examines his refusal to let blindness diminish his talents and abilities.
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How can anyone break through that kind of willed blindness and be seen?
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But for a long time John said he wouldn't accept his blindness either.
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Google wants to help cure a common form of blindness with machine learning.
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The winners range from blindness charities to projects to help leprosy sufferers. 9.
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An English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Kleege recently published More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art, a book about how blindness is represented in art and how it affects the lives of visual artists.
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One of the women did, saying she was relieved the temporary blindness wasn't indicative of a more serious long-term health concern; another kept a month-long blindness diary before admitting Plant might have a point, because fuck qualified doctors, huh.
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And if the infection is ignored or left untreated, it could lead to blindness.
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She allegedly suffered burns, scarring, disfigurement, blindness in her right eye, and lung damage.
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Leber congenital aumaurosis is a degenerative disease that can eventually lead to total blindness.
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Oh, and to the people who've suggested she has facial blindness, she does not.
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"blindness" is replaced with the reality of living with blood in her eyes… but
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The condition causes pain, blurred vision, headaches, and even cause temporary blindness, Iwach said.
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At later stages, victims can suffer from numbness, blindness and, in rare cases, death.
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These findings suggest that something about congenital blindness may protect a person from schizophrenia.
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We see this kind of psychosomatic symptom from time to time: mutism, blindness, paralysis.
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Blindness brings challenges for any woman, not least being unable to use a mirror.
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A different physique, together with blindness, would have made my transition much more challenging.
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By the 19th century, it caused blindness, in the early 20th, it stunted growth.
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Oh, and it might be a cure for red-green color blindness in people.
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Runge explained that he used the extract to treat partial blindness in a soldier.
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"Late syphilis" can affect almost any organ, and lead to blindness, paralysis and dementia.
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Foot ulcers are just one complication—others include blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.
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The interactive experience complements the story world of the feature film Notes on Blindness.
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While I eventually received beneficial health services, it was largely because of my blindness.
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He was also involved in a campaign to eliminate river blindness in West Africa.
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Symptoms of pink eye include redness, watery discharge and, in extreme cases, irreversible blindness.
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Called Luxturna, it treats a rare form of blindness and is made by Spark.
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One of their books had a chapter on onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness.
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Over time these patches usually become bigger causing blurry, misty vision and eventually blindness.
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Left untreated, diabetes can lead to nerve damage, amputations, blindness, heart disease and strokes.
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Preliminary lab work is underway exploring alterations of human cells to correct inherited blindness.
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People with color blindness and dyslexia had a hard time picking up the game.
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If left untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility, miscarriages, chronic pain and blindness in newborns.
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The disease can lead to complications like blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage and amputations.
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The marketing arms of companies like Horizon must count on this sort of blindness.
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This week, Claire has a piece on how male dirt blindness is a lie.
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Having a cup of hot tea every day may reduce your risk for blindness.
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Rucker of King's College London said that ensuring double blindness is a big challenge.
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They tell me how inspiring it is to see how I've overcome my blindness.
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It's part of it, I suppose — in many ways, I have overcome my blindness.
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Depression can be a kind of blindness that blacks out everything but the worst.
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As a result of that willful blindness, Mexico's democracy is in crisis and reeling.
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Yet, Europe itself ignores the energy beneath its own feet in a willful blindness.
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"I knew that if I didn't understand blindness, it would destroy me," he says.
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With age comes intellectual routine, and with intellectual routine comes complacency and operational blindness.
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To see this order as anything other than a Muslim ban is willful blindness.
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"I once let blindness make me a passenger in my own life," he wrote.
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In the wake of a cruel prank, Jack reveals his face blindness to Libby.
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MARK RICCOBONO Baltimore To the Editor: Edward Hoagland's view of blindness is deeply upsetting.
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Kristin Smedley is the president and co-founder of the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation.
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Do you think there is a lack of honest portrayals of blindness in culture?
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Or the worst case scenario: blindness or even complete loss of your eye(s).
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Ray Charles blindness Lil Wayne lyrics reference tally, with one point for Ray Charles.
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The topic of blindness is more directly confronted in other works in the exhibition.
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Achromatopsia, or total color blindness, is extremely rare, affecting about one in 30,000 people.
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According to the National Institute of Health, about one in 12 men and one in 200 women experience color blindness, with the large majority of those cases being anomalous trichomacy, a type of partial color blindness in which colors lose their vibrancy.
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The company's most advanced product would be used to treat a progressive form of blindness.
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There's blindness caused by grief, melodramatic plot twists by the bushel, and a cricket narrator.
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Another trial using Crispr to treat an inherited form of blindness is currently recruiting participants.
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The humans that remained developed uniform blindness, which was then passed along to their offspring.
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As noted in the NEJM report, the blindness was accompanied by detached retinas and hemorrhaging.
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She later wrote that the disfiguring scar and blindness left her feeling isolated and introspective.
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"Luc is a dynamic kid who doesn't let blindness stand in his way," Olson said.
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Colour blindness has thus evolved twice in this group, meaning it is probably no accident.
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WE'RE LOOKING FOR THINGS MORE LIKE RETROSENSE, WHERE WE'RE DOING GENE THERAPY TO SOLVE BLINDNESS.
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Eve Mosher, an American artist, made "HighWaterLine" to directly confront urban blindness to the sea.
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A blanket allowance of willful blindness wouldn't just prevent corporate criminals from paying the price.
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Better is just to not get snow blindness in the first place, which is easy.
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This is a leading cause of blindness and its early stages have virtually no symptoms.
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The parasite can cause blindness in a developing fetus, and threaten people who are immunocompromised.
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In Naples, using sight, sound, voice, and movement to evoke the varied experiences of blindness.
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They all inevitably cross the lines anyway, making their willful blindness all the more reprehensible.
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Ashlyn, who is severely disabled with blindness and deafness, knew when her dad was around.
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The light could also damage eyes and increase the risk of blindness later in life.
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Nearly everyone who saw Ms. Nelligan's blazing performance left the theater dazzled into near blindness.
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How, given this widespread blindness, are people to learn about and work with nature's logic?
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A severely restricted diet can cause a condition called nutritional optic neuropathy, leading to blindness.
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Left untreated, it can lead to complications like blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, and amputations.
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A 2018 study showed that too much blue light can increase your risk of blindness.
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It's a certainty that history will look unkindly upon the moral blindness of contemporary Republicans.
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Obviously, some caveats, before we start: the blindness reported in this journal is temporary, i.e.
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Rarely, a bad batch could be fatal, or lead to permanent disability such as blindness.
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" Even in blindness there was always a door, a hint of "a world beyond sight.
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" He also accused Ms. Hidalgo of "blindness" and said she was in an "ivory tower.
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That it does not want to admit to willful blindness is both understandable and unforgivable.
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There's a blindness there too, because back then I only thought black people did welfare.
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Less frequently, measles can lead to blindness, croup, mouth ulcers, ear infections, or severe diarrhea.
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" Cuarón methodically shredded his old blindness so he could make Rodríguez the protagonist of "Roma.
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The animals help them cope with mood swings and depression, blindness and post-traumatic stress.
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Diabetes can lead to grim complications, from heart attacks and strokes to blindness and amputations.
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Both eyes showed signs of diabetic retinopathy, a condition that can cause blindness if untreated.
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Our blindness makes us more susceptible to them; more prone to replicate them, not less.
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Others wanted to tackle the most neglected diseases, like Guinea worm, elephantiasis and river blindness.
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But after the blindness began, Solano shifted to colorful work that burst off the walls.
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Day to day, week to week, I don't find that my blindness is an obstacle.
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Post-racialism was a hipper variant of the longstanding conservative doctrine of racial color blindness.
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The blue design of the site is partially because of his red-green color blindness.
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I eventually learned that I didn't cause my blindness any more than I cured it.
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To Dennett, this blindness reflects the fact that we take the intentional stance toward ourselves.
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The Trump administration's willful blindness to climate change flies in the face of the evidence.
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Perhaps my belief that New Zealanders live in an inclusive, tolerant society is willful blindness.
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I already have all the blindness skills, but adjusting to hearing loss feels more challenging.
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Excessive stress combined with forgetting to eat can cause temporary blindness, the doctor told him.
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In particular, Strechay stressed that "there are a lot of comical portrayals of blindness" onscreen.
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I remember that I once let blindness make me a passenger in my own life.
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First, we need to change the way we approach the so-called problem of blindness.
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Cosby's defense attorney asked for a sentence of house arrest, given his age and blindness.
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Cases of blindness and death from bootleg liquor, however, are also common in the region.
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Protanopia (red color blindness) and deuteranopia are the trippiest—most colors appear to be reversed.
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The measles virus is highly contagious and can cause blindness, deafness, brain damage or death.
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It is also working on treatments for Pompe disease, blindness-causing choroideremia and Huntington's disease.
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Prosecutors say one child was left with brain damage and permanent blindness in his left eye.
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While Woodard lived to tell his story, his blindness left him unable to make a living.
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Transportation is hardly the only area where people with blindness and low vision struggle for access.
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Exaggerated blindness fears aside, the hogweed is a legitimate nuisance that ecologists are rightfully worried about.
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In this case, to address Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI), the most common form of childhood blindness.
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And there appears to be a willful blindness, in particular, when that abuse targets young boys.
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But he chose to see it another way: not as myopia but as intentionally applied blindness.
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Both the Payan and Alkenny remain steadfast that their uniform blindness is a sacred, beneficial trait.
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One marked difference—besides the paralysis, blindness, and deafness—was that there was no empty space.
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If the sap gets into the eyes, it can burn the cornea and cause permanent blindness.
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Damage to the cornea — from injury or infection — can distort vision, or even lead to blindness.
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"Blue light from phones, tablets could accelerate blindness and hurt vision, study finds," USA Today declared.
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Notes on Blindness, Peter Middleton (Writer/Director/Producer), James Spinney (Writer/Director), Jo-Jo Ellison (Producer)
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Male squirrel monkeys don't see color well; they have a kind of red-green color blindness.
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"To cure color blindness, you only want to transduce a random subset of cones," Neitz says.
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"It's an ethical gray zone with their experiments to try to fix color blindness," he says.
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Notes on Blindness – Peter Middleton (writer/director/producer), James Spinney (writer/director), Jo-Jo Ellison (producer)
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Rubella was known to cause deafness, blindness, heart disease, neuromuscular tightness, seizures and extreme intellectual disabilities.
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Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation.
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Macular degeneration accounts for almost 50 percent of all cases of blindness in the developed world.
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Left untreated, chlamydia infections can lead to blindness, severe bladder inflammation, infertility and death in koalas.
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Already has one drug on the market to-- treat a rare genetic condition-- that causes blindness.
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Some have varying disabilities, from color blindness to limited motor skills, that make gaming a challenge.
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Children on this plan have serious health problems including birth defects, heart disease, diabetes and blindness.
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They point, for instance, to many economists' blindness towards social norms that are unfair to women.
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Archaic mutations, such as color blindness and acute smell receptors, make the kiwi a genetic oddball.
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Another major symptom of methanol poisoning is blurred vision, eventually leading to blindness in severe cases.
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Eventually, onset ALD results in blindness, deafness, seizures, progressive dementia, and eventually permanent paralysis or death.
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Reemerging into the world For example, blindness brought me Junebug, my guide dog for the blind.
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One of my primary symptoms had been inflammation of the optic nerves, which caused my blindness.
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Such mutations, which can lead to blindness, affect roughly 1 in 200,000 people, according to Novartis.
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The consequences of Trump's blindness on this issue are not isolated to his own political standing.
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Last December he received his Tennessee driver's license 2628 years after surrendering it because of blindness.
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That's just a lie that your willful ignorance and purposeful blindness perpetuates, to protect your conscience.
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Right-wing Ohio Republican Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanWill Republicans continue to engage in willful blindness?
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Michael Turner (R-Ohio) and Elise StefanikElise Marie StefanikWill Republicans continue to engage in willful blindness?
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Even asking if it was O.K. to return was a form of blindness to that pain.
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A pregnant woman can also pass on the infection to her baby, which can cause blindness.
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I guess this blindness on the part of Hollywood gatekeepers represents a huge opportunity for me.
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The problem is a whole lot bigger than guide dogs or blindness or unexpected cleaning fees.
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In the 1980s, Merck developed a treatment for river blindness, and opted to give it away.
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It can cause blindness, but even if it resolves and sight returns, cataracts can quickly follow.
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To me, all this reflects the tech world's moral blindness about what's happening outside its bubble.
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To the Editor: The government's willful blindness to Kevin Cooper's meritorious claim of innocence is shocking.
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I understand the collective panic from which that blindness to the pain of the enemy stems.
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The injections were painful and had potentially devastating side effects, including blindness and permanent liver damage.
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Whether it's Stevie Wonder demonstrating that blindness is no barrier to making unforgettable music or Sen.
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Some US clinics use artificial-intelligence-powered cameras to flag diabetes patients at risk of blindness.
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For, after all, what he tells us here is the story of a disastrous historical blindness.
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We will create another software to diagnose diabetic retinopathy (a disease which can lead to blindness).
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" Reached by phone Friday, Goodweeds co-owner Don Briere said the raid amounts to "willful blindness.
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One, the London Project to Cure Blindness, has an ongoing clinical trial for a stem cell treatment.
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Deuteronomy 28:28 says, 'The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.
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The sap can also cause blindness if it gets into the eyes, the New York DEC warns.
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The bourgeois blindness of feminist leaders to low-status working-class labor by men is morally corrupt!
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"Steve's greatest failing [is] he doesn't lie, but there's a willful blindness in operation there," Markus said.
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Care was taken in the hiring of performers and consultants to make the presentation of blindness convincing.
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It takes a special kind of blindness to not see the beauty in #Louisiana's most iconic ecosystem.
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In its early stages river blindness causes rashes and severe itching; later, it progressively damages the retina.
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There are 363 million blind people globally, and in low-income countries, 80% of blindness is curable.
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Gender blindness was far more effective in increasing female confidence, while (unsurprisingly) having little effect on men.
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If you've never experienced color-blindness yourself, it's pretty hard to imagine what it might be like.
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While syphilis can cause permanent neurological damage, blindness or even death, it is both treatable and curable.
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Viewing the eclipse without glasses can lead to eclipse blindness, or even severe damage to one's retina.
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Last week, we explored the fight to cure blindness and the corporate takeover of the marijuana industry.
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Meanwhile, Editas Biotechnology has proposed running a CRISPR trial by 2017 for genes causing blindness in humans.
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Researchers are using it to battle things like HIV, blindness, and malaria, just to name a few.
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Stephanie Chase, 28, Saint Paul, Minnesota I was diagnosed with face blindness at the age of 21.
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Most of Cosby's material focused on the comedian's struggle with blindness ... he didn't touch his pending trial.
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But how many of those games would be playable by a kid with vision impairment or blindness?
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The beams coming from laser enthusiasts can be distracting for pilots in flight and cause temporary blindness.
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If your blood sugar is too high, it can lead to blindness or kidney or nerve damage.
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If the infection is severe, it can cause serious complications like blindness, brain damage, and even death.
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On the other hand, blindness is an extremely rare complication that has received attention in recent years.
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Blindness is an emergency; the window shades are drawn, and one deals with it in myriad ways.
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This rare genetic defect causes severe visual impairment beginning in infancy and can eventually lead to blindness.
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The Vichy regime, in the blindness of its hatred, helped create—and promote—the de Gaulle brand.
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It took me almost 18 years to receive service-related compensation for blindness after serving in Vietnam.
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Some say "color blindness" means that even mentioning race is wrong -- even when pointing out an injustice.
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Obama's approval numbers seemed to encourage this blindness, as did the polls showing a healthy Clinton lead.
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Q&A Q. What's the No. 1 cause of blindness in older adults in the United States?
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This blindness to overwork extends to those most at risk of dying on the job, like Chae.
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Notes on Blindness shares this use of lip-sync with Clio Barnard's earlier, wilier The Arbor (2010).
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A huge weed that can cause third-degree burns and even blindness has been found in Virginia.
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Such complications as stroke, blindness and kidney failure are an especially big problem in America's minority communities.
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The only "problem" with our application was my blindness, which was sure to send up red flags.
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D'Eramo's constant toggling between past and present, blindness and insight, would be a challenge for any translator.
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Long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs cut the risk of a leading cause of blindness.
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When he cried, his eyes stayed dry; the lack of tears damaged his corneas and threatened blindness.
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Finally, there's "Blue," from 1993, Jarman's reckoning with his encroaching blindness at the end of his life.
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These were serious infections — causing everything from wheezing and shortness of breath to blindness or, rarely, death.
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What began as a painful sensitivity to light and floaters in my vision quickly progressed to blindness.
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Suppress this kind of reporting, and the first people who will suffer information blindness are China's leaders.
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The Trump administration's studied avoidance of the threat from climate change smacks of willful blindness or worse.
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For the next three years, he kept a diary on audiocassette of his interior world of blindness.
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As diabetes worsens over time, blindness, kidney disease and lower-limb amputation are also major health risks.
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The stress of trauma can not only cause paresis, but also temporary blindness, tremors, numbness or convulsions.
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Since I wore sleep shades during blindness training, adjusting to my ongoing vision loss has been straightforward.
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It is what could be called the "first-time syndrome": what blindness is like on Day 1.
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Those of us who have learned the skills of blindness avoid falls by properly using our canes.
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Germs could then enter and infect the eye, creating scarring that can damage vision and cause blindness.
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There are currently no treatments for glaucoma or macular degeneration, which progress to the point of blindness.
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As The Washington Post notes, untested stem cell therapies have led to severe blindness for some patients.
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The condition is reversible if treated early but can lead to blindness if no action is taken.
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Notes on Blindness premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and subsequently won an Emmy award.
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Reluctance to come clean could reflect blundering, stubbornness, or simply blindness to the extent of the problem.
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It was a combustible mix, full of humanity, greed, righteous anger, opportunism, politics, official blindness, and violence.
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Mortram followed David's struggles with blindness, his reliance on his mother—his sole caretaker, who passed away.
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The pink eye itself is not very rare if you share eye makeup regularly, but the blindness is.
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I was able to bring him to a doctor in time to save him from blindness and surgery.
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The first goal is to use the technology to help people overcome such ailments as blindness and paralysis.
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At that point, the infection can cause paralysis, dementia, blindness, and potentially-fatal damage to your internal organs.
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Some of those diseases—like polio, Guinea worm, and river blindness—currently cause only a handful of cases.
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While blindness, HIV and incarcerated parents are either afflictions someone has or doesn't, autism is less clear-cut.
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The iconic blue color of Facebook was chosen by Mark Zuckerberg because he has red-green color blindness.
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The condition causes patients to have increasing difficulties seeing peripherally and at night, and usually leads to blindness.
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Fred, in all his blindness to actual human needs, seems to miss out on his wife's sheer discomfort.
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Those that do pull through are often left with lifelong problems that range from brain damage to blindness.
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Though the condition can cause blindness in some humans, it doesn't appear to affect this boy one bit.
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Blindness isn't cured, but in some cases it appears that vision can be restored using these new approaches.
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Yet flat-out blindness to a potential employee's public social media presence seems, at this point, like overkill.
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In koalas, the effects of chlamydia are devastating, including blindness, infertility and an infection known as 'dirty tail'.
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His defense urged leniency and said that Cosby, whose infirmities now include legal blindness, posed no current threat.
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All the Sphinx ever did was doom Oedipus to a lifetime of blindness after fulfilling his grisly destiny.
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Spark is a gene therapy company with a pipeline of potential products targeting blindness, hemophilia and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Red-green color blindness was, to Hering, a lack of ability to perceive the red-green opponency axis.
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"Little by little, we began to work out the genetics of color blindness in humans," Jay Neitz says.
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So the disease is more debilitating than red-green color blindness, and the research track record is better.
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My blindness to the bodies of the addicts, and theirs to mine, inhibited, somehow, my compassion for them.
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Luxturna targets a rare genetic disease, Leber's congenital amaurosis, that causes blindness in about 1 in 200,000 people.
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One of my primary symptoms had been optic neuritis, inflammation of the optic nerves, which caused my blindness.
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Usually, the first symptoms that appear are blurry or double vision, color distortion or blindness in one eye.
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The app has features such as a font magnifier and different colour schemes for people with colour blindness.
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Her guide dog wears a harness instead of a vest, so many people think she's faking her blindness.
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WATCH: Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams Dishes on Jon Snow's Death, Arya's Blindness and Justin Bieber's Bare Derriere
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Left unchecked, diabetes can lead to serious complications like nerve damage, blindness, amputations, kidney damage and heart problems.
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Optometrists warn that looking directly at the sun with the naked eye during the eclipse could cause blindness.
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This can lead to severe hyperglycaemia which is extremely dangerous, and can cause blindness, infertility, coma, and death.
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An FDA advisory panel voted in favor of the company's gene therapy for a rare form of blindness.
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He has always lamented America's racial divisions and has never embraced a strict principle of constitutional colour-blindness.
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We must not, in turn, respond with violence against those who are misled and living in spiritual blindness.
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And while Richard is keen to learn more, he brings his own assumptions and blindness to his project.
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NOTES ON BLINDNESS The British-based theologian John Hull was in his 290s when he lost his sight.
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In January, a single therapy to treat a rare form of blindness received a price tag of $850,000.
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As it progresses, patients experience gradual loss of peripheral and central vision, which can eventually lead to blindness.
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Diabetic retinopathy can start off with no symptoms or only mild vision problems but can eventually cause blindness.
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Along with other chronic diseases, blindness and vision impairment increases with age particularly among people older than 75.
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"I don't choose artworks, I choose artists": Johann König says his near-blindness makes him a smarter gallerist.
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There is already an effective treatment, a medication that can kill the baby worms that cause the blindness.
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But the Supreme Court's blindness to the implications for women's equality in its rulings on reproductive rights persisted.
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If their blood sugar is consistently high, they risk nerve damage, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.
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Glaucoma is considered the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
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New gene therapies are attacking rare disorders, such as one treatment that reverses a rare form of blindness.
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And yet, Notes on Blindness seems to go beyond the words, transcribing color, emotion, and a changing consciousness.
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In Notes on Blindness, however, the strange disjuncture between words and action is used to much different effect.
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Experts have warned that even a small amount of exposure could lead to permanent blurry vision or blindness.
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Specific events reported include, but are not limited to, spinal cord infarction, paraplegia, quadriplegia, cortical blindness, and stroke.
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The themes of the play — power, hubris, blindness — certainly resonate now, and perhaps they resonate in every era.
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By analyzing millions of retinal photos, a neural network can learn to recognize early signs of diabetic blindness.
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As lasting as the resulting blindness in that eye was Hearn's terrible self-consciousness about his disfigured appearance.
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Mutations can cause symptoms ranging from blindness to early death, and women pass them down to their children.
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And, unlike the Soviets, who maintained global watch systems and spy networks, North Korea operates in relative blindness.
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Many of us have been living in a bubble of complacent blindness to what truly matters in life.
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Many of us have been living in a bubble of complacent blindness to what truly matters in life.
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The virus can also reach the brain, leading to encephalitis, and can cause blindness by blistering the eyeballs.
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The bomb caused lifelong, chronic ailments, ranging from body-covering burns to blindness to cancer to birth defects.
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Over the ensuing 43 years, he and his wife helped raise more than $600 million for blindness research.
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I had been prone to fits of insecurity with other boyfriends, but my anger grew with my blindness.
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Sightsavers, which works internationally to help prevent blindness and advocate for people who are blind, received five stars.
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This wilful blindness to dysfunction in our market system is what is worrying about the corporate tax debate.
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To the Editor: Richard V. Reeves makes many valid points about America's blindness to our class-based culture.
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"In my village, I did not have any problems because of my blindness," Goud said through an interpreter.
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This failure, this abandonment of curiosity, this rampant intolerance, this blindness, increases the likelihood of Trump's re-election.
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Defense attorneys challenged her assessment that he would reoffend, saying that his age and blindness made it unlikely.
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Just a few months later, the FDA approved its first gene therapy for an inherited form of blindness.
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Cases of measles, which can cause blindness, brain inflammation, pneumonia and in some cases death, have been rising.
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And it wasn't until he learned to live wholly in blindness that he was able to move forward.
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He explored the connotations of the word blindness—there binary concepts of light and dark; insight and ignorance.
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If it's left unchecked, the condition can cause problems like eye inflammation, lipid deposits in the cornea, and blindness.
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When someone ingests this toxic substance, it can lead to difficulty breathing, blindness, low blood pressure, coma, and seizures.
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And, by doing so, I discover that every empirical vision contains a heart of darkness, a moment of blindness.
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Those with total blindness can also take advantage of other features our software has right now, like reading assistance.
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Over time, that can lead to retinal detachment and blindness, similar to the neovascular glaucoma commonly associated with diabetes.
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The gene therapy for genetic blindness approved this week by the FDA relied on that type of modified virus.
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Complications from measles include encephalitis or swelling of the brain, severe dehydration due to diarrhea, blindness, pneumonia, and death.
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Color blindness affects approximately 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women in the world, according to colourblindawareness.org.
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He says to look for numbness or paralysis on one side of the body, slurred speech and temporary blindness.
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Silverstein said that it's unclear why adding deafness to the mix removes the protection that blindness seems to offer.
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Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Friel said the assault left Bloxham with brain injuries and near-blindness, among other injuries.
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This approach may first become widespread as new technologies augment the experience of those with conditions such as blindness.
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These two case studies aren't definitive, and experts tell The Guardian that temporary smartphone blindness is a rare phenomenon.
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" She also addressed implications that she supports Clinton only because of their shared gender, something she called "estrogen blindness.
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If accidentally injected into a blood vessel, for instance, they can cause tissue death, permanent blindness or a stroke.
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Samsung doesn't want Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) — commonly referred to as color-blindness — to inhibit anyone's television-watching experience.
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Its initial aim is to begin trials by 2017 on a possible treatment for a rare form of blindness.
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Though unsightly and annoying -- your eyes will feel too dry when this happens -- this doesn't cause blindness, says Thau.
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That vision that made me feel seen, so clear at times, makes her willful blindness to criticism worse somehow.
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Complications such as blindness, brain inflammation and even death can occur in approximately 30% of cases, according to WHO.
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Those with compromised immune systems and pregnant women can have serious reactions such as brain disease, blindness or miscarriage.
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Such governance can be tyrannical but also ironically fragile, as the state's selective blindness makes it a stumbling giant.
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The heroic work of former President Jimmy Carter and pharmaceutical donations from Merck have made river blindness less common.
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The ailment is a complication of severe near-sightedness that can lead to blindness, it added in a statement.
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A faulty one can make the gene less active or inactive, leading to impaired vision and even complete blindness.
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In February, former Trump personal attorney and fixer Michael CohenMichael Dean CohenWill Republicans continue to engage in willful blindness?
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The same blindness that makes him impervious to global outrage makes it impossible for him to make empathetic connection.
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"There are humanitarian benefits associated with reducing the blindness and suffering caused by onchocerciasis," the World Bank report allowed.
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The series begins many years after the virus has died out, and blindness has become a uniform, hereditary trait.
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Some legal experts, however, say that it is unlikely Cosby's blindness will result in the dismissal of all charges.
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River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a nasty disease that has burdened Africa for as long as anyone can remember.
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Risks of blindness and skin cancer are high; children with albinism are often bullied or teased over their looks.
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Or, whether it is just some sort of side effect of blindness that might not have any functional consequence.
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The price we pay for this is blindness to the present, and to our role in shaping the future.
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When a driver gets into a life-threatening car wreck, temporary blindness can be one of the side-effects.
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"I am concerned to understand blindness, to seek its meaning, to retain the fullness of my humanity," Hull affirmed.
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On the one side, there's the obvious suffering — amputation, heart disease, blindness — side effects of constantly inflamed blood vessels.
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Some suffer complications such as blindness, encephalitis (brain swelling caused by infection), severe diarrhea, dehydration, ear infections and pneumonia.
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Since then I've educated myself about blindness, seeking out visually impaired people and the professionals who work with them.
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Yet the blindness of Mr. Scott's trust has been challenged in a state lawsuit filed by a Tallahassee lawyer.
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But both Hitler and Mussolini were shrewd demagogues who benefited from the blindness of political insiders who accommodated them.
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Skim milk is routinely fortified with vitamin A (which prevents blindness, and which is removed in the skimming process).
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By analyzing thousands of eye scans, for instance, a neural network can learn to detect signs of diabetic blindness.
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The blindness of Thatcherism's supporters has been to accept it as the patriotic solution to the globalism it enabled.
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Nearly 70 million Indians are diabetic, according to the World Health Organization, and all are at risk of blindness.
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The patients opted for deafness, blindness, heart disease, even losing a limb, instead of returning to their morbid obesity.
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The stem cells apparently formed a membrane that pulled the retina off the back of the eye, causing blindness.
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The blue screen became an image of blindness; the spoken soundtrack, lifted from his journals, a chronicle of dying.
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Before the judge sent the jury off to reach a verdict, he instructed that "willful blindness" was no defense.
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A low point came at Christmastime 1983 when he suffered panic attacks and decided he could never accept blindness.
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It used to be thought of as a miracle to cure someone of blindness or heal a disfiguring disease.
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Scholars claim the poem "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" shows Milton grappling with his increasing blindness.
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"Sometimes color blindness feels like an annoyance, other times it feels like a bigger inclusivity issue," he told Hyperallergic.
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Only by teaching leadership and ethics can we break this chain of moral blindness, particularly in government and business.
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"Diabetes is the No. 1 cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult-onset blindness," the CDC says.
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In addition to examining refractive errors, researchers also looked at rates of blindness and what's known as low vision.
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It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.
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From thence proceeds our self-assured blindness by which we spitefully deny ourselves the wisdom they could teach us.
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Just a few months later, the FDA approved its first gene therapy, which treats an inherited form of blindness.
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That meant hundreds of interactions with people every weekend, something that could be paralyzing for someone with face blindness.
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With minutes to go before a lecture on fighting river blindness in Latin America, Jimmy hustled out the door.
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As confident as he appears when shuffling a deck of cards, Mr. Turner remains at odds with his blindness.
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They were born out of the need to understand his blindness because if he didn't, it would destroy him.
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A startling number of island's inhabitants suffer from achromatopsia, or total color-blindness with an increased sensitivity to light.
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America's collective blindness to the consequences of its energy policies has been exacerbated by the current administration's feckless decisions.
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Another told me how learning to recognize the bead hues from my patterns helped him with his color blindness.
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It rarely causes total blindness, but it can cause blurriness and blind spots that make it hard to see clearly.
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This is a marked contrast from Lyft's competitor Uber, which has faced claims that it discriminates against people with blindness.
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In Jose Samarago's 1998 novel Blindness, the citizens of an unnamed country experience a nation-sweeping epidemic of non-sightedness.
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She rarely talked about her blindness, and it was even more unusual for her to ask her mom for help.
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The campaign against Guinea worm has been going since 27; polio, since 214; river blindness, in the Americas, since 20303.
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Once upon a time, people truly believed that masturbation led to blindness or caused hair to grow on someone's palms.
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In severe cases, Bradbury said, the worms could burrow beneath the eye surface to scratch the cornea, leading to blindness.
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If the sap gets into the eyes, it can burn the cornea (the eye's outermost layer) and cause permanent blindness.
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People have been euthanised because of a wide range of conditions, including depression, blindness, deafness, gender-identity crisis and anorexia.
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He did not know then that those people were suffering from trachoma, an infectious eye disease that can cause blindness.
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The only outward hint of inner conflict is the wayward direction of the eyes, which implies both omniscience and blindness.
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Fifteen years ago as much as half the population was infected with the worm that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness.
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This is an essential blindness from which the leaders of both parties and the captains of the media industry suffer.
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They faced a lifetime of defects including deafness, blindness, heart disease, neuromuscular tightness and spasticity, intellectual disabilities, autism and more.
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One of the women was relieved the short-term blindness didn't signal a more serious problem like an imminent stroke.
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For, as he noted, consanguineous marriages were commonly said to produce children who suffered from "deafness and dumbness, blindness &c".
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That one, Luxturna, treats a rare form of inherited blindness called Leber congenital aumaurosis through surgical injections in each eye.
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This work underscores efforts by Google's DeepMind and Microsoft to classify conditions that can lead to blindness using machine learning.
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The build-up of waste damages brain cells, causing blindness, seizures, the loss of communication and motor skills and dementia.
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It's also known as snow blindness, as it can happen during sun exposure from highly reflective snow at high elevations.
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The study presented of Friday also found that semaglutide caused an "unexpected higher rate" of retinopathy complications, such as blindness.
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Twenty years after efforts began to fight this leading cause of infectious blindness, teams are seeing remarkable and continuous progress.
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Many of us have developed a mental blindness that helps us see through advertising as if it were not there.
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Blindness in its helplessness reassures the rest of us that that oddball is not an eyesore or a loose cannon.
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People with uncontrolled diabetes face premature death, blindness, strokes, foot amputations and other consequences of dangerously high blood sugar levels.
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This causes a brief, dazzling flash and can lead to momentary "flash blindness" (see photograph above, taken in a simulator).
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Peter Middleton's and James Spinney's Notes on Blindness is a dramatic account of English theologian John Hull's loss of sight.
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But experts say that blindness to the risks posed by modems puts the integrity of American elections in grave danger.
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The researchers determined that the teen's diet — both the junk food and the lack of nutrients — caused his permanent blindness.
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Then, around the age of 31, his vision began a sharp decline that would end in blindness six years later.
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And given the magnitude of caste-based aggression and harassment on Twitter, its blindness to caste in India is alarming.
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It has a very low death rate in developed countries, but it can cause severe complications like blindness and seizures.
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Sterne, a prominent Abstract Expressionist who died in 22013, seemed to have a premonition of her late-in-life blindness.
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I'll stay there until I have to hit the road again to tell my story of how I overcame blindness.
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And this rhetorical maneuver almost perfectly parallels the devious end run at the core of right-wing color blindness orthodoxy.
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Gore and his opinion in Citizens United, with its blindness to the reality of how money corrupts our political process.
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It betokened too a certain willful blindness toward the evidence that was already emerging of a popular backlash against liberalism.
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They suffer from disabilities ranging from missing limbs, blindness and progressive neurological disorders to traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries.
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While in prison, he signed a letter that said "from your Valentine" to a woman he allegedly healed from blindness.
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When the war came to an end in November, he was in a hospital in Germany, recovering from temporary blindness.
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Glaucoma, a condition caused by damage to the optic nerve, is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world.
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Their willful blindness and intransigence will empower President Trump, as he proceeds to implement the "Make America Great Again" agenda.
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It is Virginia's turn to face the calamities brought upon it by the repeated moral blindness of its political leaders.
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Glaucoma, another leading cause of blindness, involves a rise in fluid pressure inside the eye that damages the optic nerve.
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In the face of such love and courage, who am I to insist she add embracing blindness to the mix?
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Olson's life, which was once classified as before blindness and after, was now more like before the snap and after.
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A breakthrough genetic therapy for a rare form of blindness will cost $850,000 per patient, its maker announced on Wednesday.
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The problems I encounter almost never have to do with my blindness; rather, they are a result of people's attitudes.
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To the Editor: Edward Hoagland's story powerfully puts a singular face on the daunting challenge of vision loss and blindness.
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Throwing sand in the enemy's eyes can result in temporary blindness and confusion; this should be taken advantage of immediately.
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The fact that Israeli authorities believe that this conduct is acceptable speaks volumes as to the moral blindness afflicting them.
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Duchaine said face blindness comes in a variety of different forms and impacts between 1 to 2% of the population.
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The 2006 Modern Love essay was written by Ryan Knighton, an author whose work often describes his experience of blindness.
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However, Cosby's defense attorney, Joseph P. Green, asked for a sentence of house arrest, citing Cosby's advanced age and blindness.
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In the long term, poorly controlled diabetes is associated with heart attacks, strokes, blindness, amputation and the need for dialysis.
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During his set, Mr. Cosby, 80, joked about his struggles with blindness and remarked about the age of the audience.
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That it decided not to do so suggests willful blindness to the assault, and a callous disregard for its seriousness.
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You'll suffer "inattention blindness," where you may see an object but not process that it's a car speeding toward you.
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Diabetic retinopathy, a fast-growing cause of blindness worldwide, has the potential to affect about 415 million people with diabetes.
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Smaller biotech Spark Therapeutics also will seek signoff for a therapy to restore vision in an inherited form of progressive blindness.
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The therapy, Luxturna, from Spark Therepeutics, was approved by the FDA in December to treat a rare, inherited form of blindness.
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Now some tech companies are developing products to make shopping less of an ordeal for customers with blindness or low vision.
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Which is great, because you don't want to risk blindness for the relatively small amount of data Vaunt glasses would provide.
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Two years ago, Lyme disease attacked her legs and brought back some of her earlier symptoms—including blindness in one eye.
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It can be difficult to predict when a pregnant diabetic woman's condition may rapidly worsen, leading to blindness or kidney failure.
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It is one of the most common causes of blindness in children, affecting 2 to 3 out of every 100,000 newborns.
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River blindness, a parasitic disease transmitted by flies, has been eliminated in most of the Americas thanks to a donated drug.
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Measles is a viral infection that causes high fever, a red rash, and, in more serious cases, blindness or brain inflammation.
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Advocating the destruction of those alliances demonstrates a deep ignorance of history and blindness to the current state of the world.
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Between them they affect more than a billion people, most of them poor, with blindness, immobility, disfigurement and often great pain.
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They are not cynical enough about their own authoritarian system, refusing to see how it induces a sort of democracy-blindness.
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Once doctors told the women to look at their phones with both eyes while in the dark, their temporary blindness disappeared.
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We're told that if Cosby was placed in any of these departments ... he'd work a job that'd accommodate his legal blindness.
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Or you could spend just $100 and help someone living in a poor country get surgery to prevent blindness from trachoma.
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One estimate finds that surgery that prevents blindness induced by trachoma, an infectious disease, costs a charity just $100 per operation.
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Ahead, check out some animations that will help you see what it's really like to experience various types of color-blindness.
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It can defeat Go champions, potentially help those fighting blindness, and now it's helping Google itself to become more environmentally friendly.
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As to whether the technique could be used to correct impaired vision, such as color blindness, that's less clear, he said.
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Those who recover are almost always left with devastating complications which can include blindness, kidney damage, nerve damage, and limb loss.
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Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness is actually something I saw first at Sundance, but never found an opportunity to write about.
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Some 347 million people have diabetes worldwide, and these conditions are two of the leading causes of preventable blindness in adults.
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There is no cure for glaucoma, the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, according to the World Health Organization.
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Still, mutations in mitochondrial DNA can lead to serious health conditions in humans, such as blindness, heart problems, and liver disease.
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The shockwave and flash from Chelyabinsk meteor caused injuries such as temporary blindness and wounds from shattered glass and collapsing structures.
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By that same year, most of the world's children had been vaccinated against measles, which causes blindness, brain damage and death.
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Even in small quantities, methanol can cause serious health problems, blindness, and death for unwary vacationers who happen to drink it.
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The dogs are trained to help with various disabilities, including blindness or low vision, post-traumatic stress disorder and hearing loss.
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Kashmir's hospitals are overwhelmed, and more than 100 people, mostly young, are threatened with blindness by pellets lodged in their eyes.
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Here is one example: Rice-based diets are deficient in a precursor of vitamin A, causing blindness and death in children.
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At night, with the pupil dilated for dark adaptation, flash blindness will affect personnel at greater ranges and for greater durations.
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Glaucoma affects about 2.7 million people in the United States and is the second leading cause of blindness in the world.
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And more than 22011%, or 22020 million people, received treatment for onchocerciasis or river blindness, a parasitic disease transmitted by blackflies.
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Ogoye got up, helped by a colleague, and stumbled in blindness over debris and what she later learned were dead bodies.
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Public Health Suppose you're an eye doctor and you're treating a patient with macular degeneration, a disease that can cause blindness.
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We are locked, as a culture, into these ways of seeing and expressing that, increasingly, feel like blindness and empty signifying.
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Stem cell therapy is the hot new solution for seemingly every physical problem, whether it's back pain, creaky knees, or blindness.
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As a result, some have had to put certain studies on hold, including those involving Alzheimer's, blindness, heart disease and arthritis.
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The company cited the risk of blindness, stroke, paralysis and death — a request that neither the agency nor Pfizer made public.
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The bacterial infection, which can cause blindness, has been eliminated as a public health menace in at least seven poor countries.
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Mr. Gund has been waiting 46 years for his initial philanthropic grants to find treatments for genetic blindness to pay off.
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And if he wins, his gender's enduring blindness to issues involving women in society might stunt urgent and necessary political action.
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That was how Theresa May's premiership ended this week, wrecked by her blindness and secretive obstinacy, in loneliness, desertion and despair.
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The other passengers are ambulatory but have disabilities — blindness, for example — that make taking subways or buses difficult, if not impossible.
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Fillers, however, can be injected into the wrong place — between blood vessels, for example — resulting in complications that can include blindness.
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"Our confidence and energy, our reach and grasp, our excess and blindness — they were not so different from Holbrooke's," Packer writes.
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Doctors can help patients avoid the more severe complications (blindness, pneumonia) by making sure patients have good nutrition and enough fluids.
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The tissue is used to test drugs, develop vaccines and study cancer, AIDS, Parkinson's disease, birth defects, blindness and other disorders.
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Hospitals in the United States, Britain and Singapore have also run clinical trials with systems that detect signs of diabetic blindness.
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After the initial screening by the A.I. system, doctors could treat the eyes, perhaps with laser surgery, to stave off blindness.
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She was effectively cast out of the front row as her behavior spurred a discussion of fashion's history of willful blindness.
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The traits Trump embodies are narcissism, not humility; combativeness, not love; the sanctification of the rich and blindness toward the poor.
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It can also lead to amputations, dialysis, blindness and other debilitating complications that impose tremendous financial burden on already struggling patients.
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For all of her real and perceived strangeness, the most unusual thing about Seager is her blindness to her greatest gift.
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The past week has been a whirling display of moral blindness in the Commonwealth of Virginia and among national Democratic leaders.
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It is the most common infectious cause of blindness in the United States and much of the rest of the world.
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For 25 years, Merck has donated Mectizan to help fight river blindness in remote communities in Latin America, Africa and Yemen.
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To the Editor: Edward Hoagland's reaction to blindness shows the stereotypes to which he has been exposed during decades of sight.
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" However, Cosby's defense attorney, Joseph P. Green, asked for a sentence of house arrest, citing Cosby's advanced age and blindness. "Mr.
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Another challenge for people with low vision or blindness has been the sudden closure of subway stations due to safety concerns.
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In 1978 Ram Dass co-founded the Seva Foundation, a charity to fight blindness and other health problems around the world.
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But many people suffer from milder forms of face blindness, and may not realize that they are in any way abnormal.
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O) blindness treatment Luxturna, approved in December, runs at $850,000 per patient in the United States, while Swiss drugmaker Novartis's (NOVN.
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Speculation in the trade press on the price of Spark Therapeutics gene therapy for blindness suggest prices of up to $1,000,000.
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Ultimately I escaped, crawling to a nearby village on my hands and knees — a task made more difficult given my blindness.
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In his book "Willful Blindness," McCarthy describes Khuzami as fearless, dogged and willing to contend with the thorniest knots of evidence.
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Those recordings eventually became a book—Touching the Rock—which remains one of the most articulate accounts of blindness ever written.
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The result is an affecting, moving, and deeply personal portrayal of blindness, the likes of which we rarely get to see.
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The mechanism is similar to sudden blindness, sudden paralysis of a vocal cord, or sudden loss of eye movement, he added.
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The film, Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, is a 14-minute, six-chapter story about what it's like to go blind.
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That China would even consider sacrificing its only offshore financial centre to pander to nationalists suggests the onset of tragic policy–blindness.
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Fifteen years ago as much as half the population was infected with the worm that causes onchocerciasis, or river blindness (see map).
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The Crispr startup Editas Medicine expects to launch its first clinical trial, for a congenital eye disease that causes blindness, this year.
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About a year ago, they used Crispr to edit out a blindness-causing genetic defect in mice, curing two of their cohort.
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And though myopia often stabilizes during adulthood, having severe myopia does increase the risk of worsening vision, even blindness, as we age.
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These congenital conditions vary from person to person, and can include blindness, deformed limbs, and microcephaly, or a smaller-than-normal head.
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The pattern of damage, they added, was similar to that seen in other genetic disorders involving the retina, such as color blindness.
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Something else to know: Hickenlooper has face blindness, a medical condition called prosopagnosia that makes it difficult for him to recognize faces.
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The biggest obstacle to tackling river blindness, and other NTDs, turned out to be getting the drug to those who needed it.
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Black flies don't transmit disease in North America, but in Africa and Latin America, they carry a parasite that causes river blindness.
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It also increases the risk of serious long-term complications of diabetes, including kidney disease, blindness, nerve damage, amputations and heart disease.
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That kind of bubble blindness comes up frequently when we turn to the main reason NYT shouldn't have hired Stephens: climate change.
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He said the temporary blindness was ultimately harmless, and easily avoidable, if people stuck to looking at their smartphones with both eyes.
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Luxturna, a drug that's already approved, treats a hereditary disease that causes blindness, but has a list price of $425,000 per eye.
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For example, in 225, the theme of World Health Day was "Foresight Prevents Blindness," and a number of countries issued related stamps.
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Maybe this is just my generational blindness: most professional programmers alive today obviously got their start before Swift Playgrounds was a thing.
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Jamie Foxx took us through what it was really like for Ray Charles' to struggle with blindness and heroin addiction in Ray.
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Globally, more than 250 million people, including 19 million children, suffer from blindness or another vision impairment, according the World Health Organisation.
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Ghana, for example, is on course to become the first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate trachoma, a leading cause of blindness.
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One previous patient, from an earlier FDA trial, no longer needed to attend a specialized school for children with blindness, Comander said.
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This story has been updated to reflect the FDA's approval of Luxturna, a gene therapy to treat an inherited form of blindness.
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Republicans might be able to slow down the unraveling with this kind of willful blindness to the significance of what just happened.
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And Flexport has it all to itself, because schlep blindness has prevented everyone else in the startup world from even seeing it.
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Microsoft has previously developed tools to help farmers in India increase their crop yields and worked with hospitals to prevent avoidable blindness.
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The brothers – Nick, Steven and Leo – were born with retinopathy of prematurity, a disease that occurs in premature babies and causes blindness.
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Mr. Patterson soon lay on the ground with a crushed eye socket, a torn retina and permanent blindness in his right eye.
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Microsoft has previously developed tools to help farmers in India increase their crop yields and worked with hospitals to prevent avoidable blindness.
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Indeed the elimination of elephantiasis, river blindness, and trachoma is now more than a pipe dream — it's an achieved or achievable goal.
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H.R. 2620, the Faster Treatments and Cures for Eye Diseases Act, creates a pilot program focused on a single medical issue – blindness.
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I have a certain blindness for rebuses and other theme types where the entry fits into the slot in a different way.
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Complications such as blindness, brain inflammation and even death can occur in approximately 000% of cases, according to the World Health Organization.
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Brooks's blindness on the centrality of racism in right-wing populism is surely due to his residual loyalty to the Republican Party.
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"The byproducts of methanol metabolism cause an accumulation of acid in the blood (metabolic acidosis), blindness, and death," a CDC report said.
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This story begins with a near-death experience as a child in Russia (one that led to her blindness), then being adopted.
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It's easy to get local's blindness, but if you kick your own butt and make yourself get out there, you'll find stuff.
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We built out a blindness bootcamp with our consultants and [figured out] how that crosses over with our art and props department.
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Now 78, Mr. Gund has spent the last four decades raising money for research to stop or reverse degenerative forms of blindness.
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Regardless of the type, uncontrolled blood sugar levels can lead to complications including blindness, nerve damage, kidney failure, heart attacks, and stroke.
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"They engaged in what we call willful blindness, and a cover-up, which I think should not be countenanced," Mr. Walder said.
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Stem-cell therapies have also shown promise for treating diseases such as macular degeneration—a leading cause of blindness in the elderly.
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For the first time, doctors have injected a person with a treatment that will rely on CRISPR gene-editing to treat blindness.
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Voters will soon be denouncing the opposing party with the same reliable and willful blindness to the transgressions in their own party.
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Hypertension may increase your risk of complications ranging from a type of blindness called hypertensive retinopathy to a heart attack or stroke.
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I want to experience the internet just like everyone else — and so do millions of other people with blindness and low vision.
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Something the movies don't show when it comes to blindness is how it can make a person paranoid in the love department.
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It plans to have treatment centers in each country to address a type of blindness affecting about 6,000 people around the world.
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"For a condition like blindness, a lot of the benefits and impact is outside the healthcare system," ICER founder Steve Pearson said.
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This willful blindness to their customers' activities has made Cloudflare the "service of choice" for bad actors looking to cloak their identity.
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And now, after months and months of downplaying what his supporters believed was media blindness to his candidacy, Yang is speaking out.
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The most contagious virus known to humans, measles can also lead to blindness, brain swelling, intellectual disabilities, and, in rare cases, death.
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It has led to plans for experimental treatments of adult patients with cancer, blindness and other conditions as early as this year.
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Three women who underwent stem-cell procedures to treat macular degeneration, which slowly causes blindness, lost much or all of their sight.
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The tip-dunk is a very narrow medium, requiring a very specific combination of size, athleticism, timing, optimism, and aggressive risk-blindness.
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Sensory disabilities such as deafness and blindness can be aggravated by isolation, according to the report, and other physical conditions can worsen.
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But that would require some willful blindness to the web of high-level government connections each party has in its respective country.
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In playing Gina, the most interesting aspect of her character wasn't her blindness, but the ability to portray a woman who is flawed.
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Produced by Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, and French startup AudioGaming, "Notes on Blindness" is based on the short film of the same name.
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The Salt Lake City, Utah father of three suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative disease that causes progression vision loss and eventually blindness.
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The treatments were meant to alleviate their macular degeneration, a common age-related eye disorder that causes vision loss but rarely complete blindness.
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The money that we spend on an evening's entertainment might instead save some poor person from death, blindness, or chronic and severe pain.
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And in the end, this immutability, this blindness to change, the fact that Gatsby can picture himself as only one thing, limits him.
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Skyler Fish's accident caused a brain aneurysm, and the nerves to his eye were pinched, leaving him with possible permanent damage and blindness.
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In Britain only around 8% of people with disabilities use wheelchairs, while other impairments include blindness, deafness, problems with mobility, speech or cognition.
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After the medical tests were inconclusive, they went to an eye doctor who simply asked them where they were when the blindness started.
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Relying on image recognition, Google recently used AI to diagnose cancer faster than a human, and is testing it to diagnose diabetic blindness.
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Researchers looked at mice that they had previous corrected a gene associated with blindness in, sequencing their entire genome to hunt for changes.
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These tags can be useful for users with blindness in helping describe what's in an image, technology that Facebook makes use of now.
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Age-related macular degeneration affects up to 25 million people worldwide and is the leading cause of early blindness in the industrial world.
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She said she was unable to hold her son for the first three months of his life, and had to overcome temporary blindness.
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The committee found that an experimental gene therapy for a rare inherited form of blindness improves vision, at least in the short term.
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Spark Therapeutics is charging $850,000 for its recently approved gene therapy drug, Luxturna, which treats a rare eye condition that leads to blindness.
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The convention requires ratifying nations to adopt laws banning discrimination on the basis of any form of disability, from blindness to mental illness.
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Just before my blindness hit, I had been laid up with an unknown virus that had left me suffering severe headaches and sweats.
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His 10th deployment ended with him being rushed out of the country, partially paralyzed, with a brain injury and blindness in one eye.
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Giles and his colleagues are investigating the practical applications of these devices, which are opening up new possibilities for people with permanent blindness.
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He was cured of blindness after receiving gene therapy treatment and now can see well enough to read enlarged notes on sheet music.
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"These infections can create ulcers that, if in the center of your vision, can result in vision loss, including blindness," Dr. DiMeglio says.
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The children who were removed and put on other Medicaid plans had health problems such as birth defects, heart disease, diabetes and blindness.
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Two were born undersized, while a third was born at normal weight but with severe microcephaly, including eye lesions that could indicate blindness.
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They're both skilled at tapping into a determination that would be admirable if it didn't hew so close to obsession, and to blindness.
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According to cell biologists, studies on Alzheimer's, blindness, heart disease, and arthritis have all been affected by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's embargo.
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Eye-Bonds legislation has the support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness, National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, and Blinded Veterans of America.
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The protagonist, anchor Will McAvoy, "shares many weaknesses of other cable news stars—most notably, a blindness to his own ideology," he wrote.
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If we are to fully benefit from society's entire pool of knowledge and talent, that's the sort of blindness we need to correct.
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Further research could shed light on diseases caused by mitochondrial DNA, which can lead to blindness, nerve damage and dementia, Dr. Xue said.
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A severe lack of vitamin B, vitamin D, and other nutrients permanently damaged the boy's vision, leading to total blindness by age 17.
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Whatever one thinks of Assange's election disclosures, accepting his contention that they shared no ties with the two Russian fronts requires willful blindness.
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Several years ago, Fletcher and his team had never heard of river blindness and knew very little about neglected tropical diseases in general.
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To remedy their temporary blindness, Plant told the women to just open both eyes when they looked at their phones in the morning.
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Rubella during the first trimester in an unvaccinated pregnant mother-to-be can contribute a host of congenital disorders, like deafness and blindness.
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"The principles were Blindness, Loneliness, and Terror, the first principle necessarily and actively cultivated in order to deny the two others," he wrote.
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A diet packed with processed foods is a lot more likely to lead to health complications like heart problems and diabetes than blindness.
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Hope is blindness in the face of what you think you know, it is doing what you do not think you can do.
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One is transgender, one navigates her blindness, one discovers a family secret, another an unexpected sexuality, one might just be a future Banksy.
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"There is a preferred ignorance or a willful blindness to what some people might call inconvenient truth," Ms. Bessant said in an interview.
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By analyzing millions of retinal scans showing signs of diabetic blindness, a neural network can learn to identify the condition on its own.
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More than 365 children die from measles every day, according to Unicef, and the disease can also cause blindness, deafness or brain damage.
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One woman, age 35, had inflammation that caused soaring eye pressure, which damaged the optic nerve and caused permanent blindness and constant pain.
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An artist — or anyone — who is suffering from that blindness isn't someone who is seeing a reality the rest of us cannot face.
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Smith has always been merciless in splaying her characters open and allowing their flaws — their weakness, blindness, narcissism, vanity — to spur the narrative.
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One of the pilots of the plane said the laser hit him directly in the eye, "causing temporary blindness," the sheriff's department said.
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M. Leona Godin, who lives in Colorado, is working on a personal and cultural history of blindness to be published by Pantheon Books.
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Our heartstrings were pulled by fund-raisers showing blindness at its worst to raise money for cures that could be many years away.
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I'm perfectly comfortable with my blindness, and my coffee routine, but I could feel her discomfort encroaching on me, and I resented it.
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"Rekava" is set in a rural village where a boy is thought to have magical powers after he apparently heals a girl's blindness.
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Chlamydia causes conjunctivitis, which can lead to blindness, urinary tract infections and infections of the reproductive organs that can lead to female infertility.
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That is, of course, easier to do as a chief executive in a state capitol far removed from the partisan blindness of Washington.
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Embracing the fullness of our identities in no way represents a lack of respect or a blindness to the gravity of a tragedy.
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Many infectious diseases—from cholera and typhoid through river blindness and malaria, are directly or indirectly transmitted through polluted or stagnant water supplies.
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Acknowledging that your blindness, selfishness and fear compelled you to buy into a man who is selling you out may take more time.
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But in untreated animals, Bradbury says, the worms can live and reproduce up to 30 months, leading to vision loss or even blindness.
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What sense does it make for an organization narrowly focused on child blindness or polio or tuberculosis to delve into reproductive care policy?
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Back in the 1980s, the ophthalmologist Alfred Sommer was in Indonesia, trying to prevent a form of blindness that results from nutrient deficiencies.
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But I think when only one group has them, it's actually a horrific blindness when it comes to being in touch with humanity.
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There are only 2 approved gene therapies in the U.S., one for a form of blindness and the other for spinal muscular atrophy.
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It becomes apparent in the film just how restrictive our vocabulary is—we can only talk about blindness with the language of sight.
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When Carlton Cook Walker's young daughter developed health problems that led to near-total blindness, she knew she wanted her to learn Braille.
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Three experiences tackled different aspects of the current refugee crisis—Invisible, Home: Aamir, We Wait—while others examined issues of epilepsy and blindness.
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Notes on Blindness was recorded with binaural audio, using a dummy head to capture sound that mimics the way our ears hear naturally.
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She also notes that you need a "moral revolution" to overcome "moral blindness," and that's precisely the phase we need to enter now.
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A diet of corn or rice may keep a person alive, but can result in myriad health issues from night-blindness to severe anemia.
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Aira may be an emerging leader in its field, but it's far from the only app available to people with blindness or low vision.
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As a judge for various emerging technology startup competitions, I saw "Uber for" so many times that at some point, I developed perceptual blindness.
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The dazzle effect can trigger temporary blindness, with "catastrophic" consequences, according to John Marshall, a professor at University College of London's Institute of Ophthalmology.
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The idea appeared elegant on paper, but the first US gene therapy to treat an inherited disease—for blindness—was approved just last year.
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Allowing apps like the one used by Cambridge Analytica to access user data was an act of "willful blindness," Senator Richard Blumenthal told Zuckerberg.
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If it is successful, it could see the company help protect millions of people with diabetes from an eye disease that leads to blindness.
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Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high blood sugar levels that can lead to blindness, heart disease and other serious conditions.
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If you're nearsighted, you're at risk for retinal detachment, which can cause blindness—a dilated eye exam can reveal early warning signs, Volpe says.
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The aquarium's population of little penguins consists of those with "serious injury or have disabilities such as blindness or amputations," according to its website.
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NASA warned that looking directly into a solar eclipse without proper protection can cause retinal burns, which can lead to temporary or permanent blindness.
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She's six months old and still has to be hand fed, because her blindness prevented her from being able to nurse from her mother.
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In 2017, the company created UNO ColorADD, which they described as the first card game designed to be accessible to those with color blindness.
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Their venom, which is delivered by either biting or spitting, can cause extreme pain, blindness, respiratory failure, possible amputation of limbs, and even death.
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Digging deeper, when researchers looked at epidemiological data from the time, they saw that most cases of blindness attributed to scarlet fever were temporary.
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Unwanted mutations to genes are always potentially harmful—genetic diseases like the blindness they were trying to cure is, after all, one such mutation.
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BARRAQUER, Barcelona, ISM/Science Photo LibraryScientists have used stem cells to cure blindness in rabbits—which could be incredible news for visually impaired people.
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If the worms remain in a person's eye for a prolonged time, they can cause corneal scarring and even blindness, according to the researchers.
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The company said India has a shortage of roughly 100,000 eye doctors and that only a fraction of diabetics are screened for preventable blindness.
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Hill jokingly posited that perhaps Superman has performed selective brain surgery on all his cohorts to induce face blindness, thereby protecting his secret identity.
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And, yes, Dany is being held captive by the Dothraki, and Arya is struggling with her blindness, and Cersei is at her lowest ebb.
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He realized that color and color blindness were a kind of natural experiment on consciousness; Maureen thought molecular genetics might help figure it out.
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In March 2018, an FDA-approved gene therapy called Luxturna was used to treat a rare, inherited form of blindness called leber congenital amaurosis.
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The disease, spread through sexual contact or from mother to joey, causes widespread infertility, blindness, pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and can ultimately be fatal.
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Free to perform, in January, at a Philadelphia jazz club, where he joked about his struggles with blindness and played drums with a quartet.
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The agony of the trachoma infection (dubbed "blinking hell" at Sightsavers) is profound and the blindness it causes impacts both individuals and their communities.
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The mysterious neurological condition that afflicts them is known as developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and it means they struggle to recognize familiar faces.
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If the infection moves to the eyes, patients can experience swelling in their face and difficulties with their vision, which can lead to blindness.
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"The byproducts of methanol metabolism cause an accumulation of acid in the blood (metabolic acidosis), blindness, and death," the CDC says on its website.
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