A Serious Blog
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Pioneering eye surgery for blind man becomes a UK first
January 27, 2020A first-of-its-kind, ground-breaking surgery has been performed on a blind man from County Durham, in the hope of saving his vision.Read more… -
Innovative new visual aid could change lives
December 19, 2019A revolutionary new belt that buzzes to alert visually impaired people of nearby objects is being trialled by eye experts in Southampton.Read more… -
Chips can cause blindness
September 11, 2019A poor diet consumption has left a teenager from Bristol with blind spots in the centre of his vision.Read more… -
People could soon be injected with infrared vision
September 02, 2019Scientists predict that people will soon be able to see infrared light due to tiny particle injections.Read more… -
Help is calling you, pick up the phone
September 02, 2019An app called ‘Be my eyes’ created a way for people who are blind or suffer from low-vision to complete everyday tasks that they wouldn’t be able to on their own.Read more… -
Gran has eyeballs tattooed to act as ‘sunglasses’
September 01, 2019A grandmother has endured a peculiar treatment to her eyes. The treatment consisted of having her eyes tattooed so the ink could act like sunglasses.Read more… -
Study shows we can’t truly hide information as our eyes give it away
August 27, 2019A new study carried out has proved that eyes can be the first indicator that you know someone, even if you try to hide it verbally.Read more… -
New app to reduce diabetic eye disease risk
August 13, 2019A new app called Retina Risk has been designed to help people with diabetes monitor and assess the risk of diabetic eye disease.Read more… -
Engineers create blinking digital eye to aid dry eye disease treatment
August 09, 2019A blinking “eye on a chip” has been created by a team at Pennsylvania State University to fill a void in the medical industry that lacks treatments for dry eye disease.Read more… -
Amount of teenagers wearing specs nearly doubles in 7 years
August 08, 2019A report by Scrivens Opticians has found that the proportion of 13 to 16-year-olds requiring glasses has nearly doubled since 2012.Read more…