blindness

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The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness estimates that $30 billion is lost in productivity from preventable or curable eye diseases in India alone.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

“The ophthalmologist did it very cruelly and quickly,” she recalled in an interview with the Foundation for Fighting Blindness, where she long served on the board and was chairwoman at the time of her death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Portions of the work were supported by a Research Sabbatical grant to Gilmore from Research to Prevent Blindness to explore the origins of antibiotic resistance.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

"Blindness is a new feeling, a new experience, a new state of being."

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2023

Blindness is always a concern with leprosy patients, but her vision is good.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly