This letter is only available in italian.
Read 0
25 May 2021
A Blind Patient Regained Partial Sight in a Breakthrough Study, Offering Hope to Millions
Original post on TIME Magazine
The darkness descends slowly for people with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that affects 2 million people worldwide.
Read Orignal Post here
ProQR Announces Positive Results from Clinical Trial of QR-421a in Usher Syndrome and Plans to Start Pivotal Trials QR-421a demonstrated a concordant benefit in multiple measures of vision, including best corrected visual activity (BCVA), static perimetry, and retinal imaging (OCT)
QR-421a observed to be well tolerated with no serious adverse events reported
Two pivotal Phase 2/3 trials are expected to start by the end of 2021
Management to host a conference call today at 8:15am EDT LEIDEN, Netherlands & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,
Read 25 March 2021
Loss of sight is a grief
Loss of sight is a grief for those who experience it. We must then be able to escape from the gloomy clutches of depression.
Read 15 March 2021
Technologies for the autonomy of the blind: when the disable person becomes homo technologicus
On his website and personal blog, Giuseppe di Grande made an interesting roundup of the “bullshit”, as he defines it, that students, companies and startups have invented in recent years for the blind.
Read 4 February 2021
Music is invisible to the eye
February is the low vision awareness month.
We wrote about this in this article.
This year we want to celebrate this month dedicated to low vision awareness with music.
Read 1 December 2020
December 3rd: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992 by United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3.
Read 19 March 2020
When touching is forbidden
When I was 18 years I was diagnosed with Usher Syndrome and it took me another eighteen years to understand which were the consequences of this disease and realize that it is one of the main causes of deaf blindness.
Read 16 March 2020
Freedom is within us, a partially sighted says.
Yesterday I decided to try not to read news, articles, numbers.
It is difficult because the situation evolves rapidly and differently depending on the city, region, country in which you are located.
Read 