Category: Daily News

• ThinkUV campaign
• Other age-related eye disorders
• How effective are AMD treatments?
• People with low vision
  • Famous people with low vision, past and present
  • Dame Judi Dench determined to beat AMD
  • More famous people with low vision
• Nutrition
  • Eggs are good for vision, not bad for heart
  • Superfoods
•  Coping
  • Low vision photographers:
    • Craig Royal
    • Pete Eckert
    • Tammy Ruggles
    • Laura Lawson Visconti
    • Ray Collins
  • Low vision artists
    • John Bramblitt, fabric, oil paint
    • Barrie Goodfellow, Acrylic, water colour and tactile artist
    • Continuing painting with low vision-famous painters with low vision
    • Art and low vision
  • Research
    • Genetics and aging

• Canada: VisionQuest 2016 starts October 1, 2016
• Video: Meet Mac!
•  Research
  • What’s new in research? Chat on August 31st
  • Combination Therapies who promise for retinal diseases
  • Canada: stem cell research
• Technology
  • Blind engineer at Facebook ‘Your Life Matters’
  • Microsoft help desk offers help for those with disabilities
  • Hands-free camera
  • Reader app: KNFB Reader
  • Using iPhone Siri in an emergency situation
• Coping
  • Stories of how people see
  • UK RNIB Radio
  • Household tips for those with low vision
  • Housing adaptations
  • mEYE World Photographic Competition
  • Monitor your vision
  • Video: putting eye drops in properly

• Coping
  • The 2016 General Assembly of the World Blind Union (WBU) in Orlando Florida, USA, starts on August 19th. If you aren’t attending, you can listen to proceedings live or later on demand
  • Vision problems and depression
  • Blue blocking for better sleep and less depression
• Research
  • The number of Anti-VEGF injections is a key factor to their success
  • New & promising glaucoma treatment may be useful in future AMD treatments
  • Research into glaucoma and stem cells, could be important in AMD treatment
• Technology
  • Great newsletter for low vision technology news: Tech Times
  • Android accessibility information

There are so many things that we take for granted, one of them is the convenience of getting into the car and driving to the grocery store.  Sue tells us that we need to work on our planning skills & gives us some options for getting our eggs and milk.

Out of Eggs and Milk