In addition to Prevent Blindness’s usual free resources, the organization is providing a dedicated webpage, fact sheets, and ...

Of the 150,000 children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, ...

Fetal membrane transplantation helps prevent blindness Date: April 26, 2012 Source: Loyola University Health System Summary: Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in ...

In the expanses of India, where healthcare resources can be limited, the use of AI technology from SAP and CleaVision is casting a ray of hope for newborn babies vulnerable to Retinopathy of ...

While the specific causes of blindness vary in their mechanisms, prevention strategies share common themes: regular professional eye care, protection from environmental dangers, nutritional ...

Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading nonprofit eye health organization, is announcing Dec. 2-8, 2024, as its fourth annual Geographic Atrophy (GA) Awareness Week. GA is an advanced form of dry ...

August 26, 2024 How eye drops used to prevent blindness in newborns funded the Barnes Foundation's art collection Dr. Albert C. Barnes made his fortune with argyrol, a solution that treated ...

According to Prevent Blindness, most U.S. states currently require that all newborns have an antibiotic ointment — typically erythromycin — applied to their eyes to prevent infection, known as ...

Prevention Of Blindness Week 2025 History . In 1960, the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness was established by Jawaharlal Nehru and Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur.