Latest Vision impairment and blindness News

Screen breaks and the right desk setup offer relief from work-related eye strain

Jan. 23, 2025 07:59 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The trouble started every day at around 3 p.m., after Cathy Higgins had spent five or six hours staring at an array of computer screens at her desk. Her university job overseeing research projects involved peering closely at numbers and details on contracts, applications and...

A 20-year-old blind cat is rescued from an icy Massachusetts pond after some quick thinking

Dec. 19, 2024 12:51 PM EST

Tiki, a 20-year-old blind black-and-white cat, likes to roam about outdoors. But this time he caused a scare after he was seen on ice floating in a Massachusetts pond and then fell in. He has an alert passerby and a couple of nearby construction workers to thank for his rescue. ...