Tag: blindness
the blindness of Mona Chollet or the worst of the left, by Abnousse Shalmani – L’Express
There’s a strange atmosphere. A generalized despondency, a distrust, a fear that sneaks into the looks, the tense bodies in the metro, the conversations where we look behind our backs…
In Saint-Denis and Toulouse, women assaulted for their dress… How far will blindness go?
Archaeologists work in the city center of Saint-Denis on a site protected by grids. Helping the heat, the eight women archaeologists on the site wore tank tops revealing their shoulders…
Four diseases that can cause blindness
Blurred vision, loss of sight at times… Here are the main diseases which, if left untreated, can lead to irreversible blindness. “There are hundreds of causes or diseases that can…
Blindness: what is it, how does it start?
Blindness means complete loss of vision. In France, 207,000 people would be blind. Lighting with Dr. Laurence Desjardins, ophthalmologist. Summary Definition of blindness France counts 1.7 million visually impaired people…
Fertility drug puts you at risk of blindness
The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) warns of serious visual disturbances that can be caused by clomiphene citrate (or Clomid), a drug prescribed in the event of fertility problems in…
Face blindness: difficulty recognizing faces more common than expected
News Published on 03/06/2023 at 4:03 p.m. Updated 03/06/2023 at 4:03 p.m. Reading 2 mins. Do you know prosopagnosia? When it touches a person, this disorder is characterized by an…
He wanted to take a nap, his life got dark! “I was blinded in one eye because of the flesh-eating parasite”
Cases of flesh-eating parasites can be quite surprising. This rare condition can pose a great risk. Mike Krumholz, 21, took a 40-minute nap with his contact lenses on December 19…
Gene therapy: advances in nanotechnology against hereditary blindness
News Published on 01/29/2023 at 8:06 p.m. Updated 01/29/2023 at 8:06 p.m. Reading 3 mins. According to a study, nanotechnology, already used in RNA-based vaccines, could lead to a new…
He just wanted to make cookies! It suddenly exploded in his face… He was almost blinded!
19-year-old Samantha D’Aprile, who lives in the United States, placed the chocolates in a bowl of hot water while baking cookies with her mother in December 2021. The sudden explosion…
While trying to be beautiful, she went blind: she doesn’t realize the damage she has done to herself and her family! The unknown danger of creams
In our daily life, we are exposed to various chemicals from many places that we do not realize. Experts say that instead of products containing dangerous chemicals, the use of…