blindness
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The discovery challenges long-standing assumptions about how the eye functions and could eventually lead to new approaches for treating serious conditions that cause blindness.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"Secondly, greys have squirrel pox - it doesn't affect them but they transmit it to red squirrels and it's fatal for them. It's a horrible disease and causes them ulcers and blindness."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 1987, Merck’s life-changing pill for river blindness had no market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Advanced cases of leprosy can cause blindness, nerve paralysis, painful sores, and deformity.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
As a kind of self-made king, he falls into the first of his blindnesses, the idea that he can give away his possessions and his crown and yet retain power in his person alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.
From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward
