World blindness---no end in sight

World Sight Day: Singapore's contribution to alleviating corneal blindness.

No End in Sight: The Abuse of Prescription Narcotics

From teenagers dying from heroin overdoses to crime tied to Vicodin and OxyContin addiction to road fatalities in which sedatives and muscle relaxants are involved, 20,000 deaths in the United States in 2014 were attributed to problems associated with narcotics and prescription drug use. Our author, whose research involves the neurobiological basis of drug addiction, traces the history and evol...

world sight day 2013 memorandum - farabi statement on the prevention of blindness and eye health

the world sight day (wsd) is held on the 2nd thursday of october to emphasize the importance of sight and impact of vision impairment. this observance is a joint initiative of the international agency for the prevention of blindness (iapb), the world health organization (who) and other international non-governmental organizations.1   the celebration resonates with vision 2020 initiative for the...

The Ontological Treatment of Sight and Blindness

There have been relatively few attempts to represent sight or blindness ontologically. This is unsurprising as the related phenomena of sight and blindness are surprisingly difficult to represent ontologically for a variety of reasons. This paper discusses those reasons, explores the current attempts to represent sight or blindness, and how these attempts fail at representing certain types of b...

Blindness, fear of sight loss, and suicide.

Numerous studies have examined the emotional impact exerted by sight loss. Research has tended to focus on clinical-diagnostic rather than therapeutic-preventive aspects. Blindness and sight restoration have been reported to induce both temporary and longer term psychopathology, usually followed by psychosocial readjustment. However, in some cases, readjustment may not occur and suicide may res...