[NFBF-L] DBS Media Report

[PLipovsky]

The Visionary Newsletter is now available on the DBS website. Here is the
link to the newsletter: Visionary Newsletter January-March 2023
<https://dbs.fldoe.org/Information/newsletters/2023/DBS%20Visionary%20Newsle
tter%20January-March%202023.pdf> 

 

DBS Media Report 

 

Disabled flag football league forming in Tallahassee
<https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/disabled-flag-football-league-forming-
in-tallahassee> 

A legally blind man is working to get a flag football league started that
accommodates people with disabilities. David Bailey created a similar league
in Daytona, and now he wants to do the same in Tallahassee.

Listen: Glaucoma can cause blindness, but people don
<https://fortworthreport.org/2023/01/09/listen-glaucoma-can-cause-blindness-
but-people-dont-always-know-they-have-it/#main> 't always know they have it

January is Glaucoma Awareness Month. Dr. Sai Chavala , an ophthalmologist
and professor of surgery at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, discusses
glaucoma - what it is, who's vulnerable and how to prevent it. 

I have visual-snow syndrome. This is what it's like living with static-like
vision 24/7
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/i-have-visual-snow-syndrome-this-is-
what-it-s-like-living-with-static-like-vision-24-7/ar-AA16wARm?rc=1&ocid=win
p1taskbar&cvid=38a421778e094764b7e84fd2377cb173> 

Visual-snow syndrome is a neurological condition with a constellation of
visual and non-visual symptoms. The hallmark symptom is seeing static or
clashing lights and flickering dots that constantly obstructs vision. Since
the cause is likely neurological, optometrists and ophthalmologists will see
nothing structurally wrong with the eye, and the condition may not be
properly diagnosed due to lack of awareness of the condition.

Mount Sinai researchers first to identify that two separate eye diseases may
contribute to common blinding eye condition
<https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/mount-sinai-researchers-first-to-id
entify-that-two-separate-eye-diseases-may-contribute-to-common-blinding-eye-
condition> 

A pair of separate eye diseases may contribute to age-related macular
degeneration (AMD), one of the leading causes of blindness in the United
States, according to results from a new study from New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary of Mount Sinai in New York.

Listen: Clinical trials to treat blindness possible after lab-grown eye
cells <https://www.wpr.org/listen/2055941> 

Researchers with the University of Wisconsin studying retinal cells say
they're now able to conduct clinical trials to treat blindness. One of those
researchers joins us to talk about what's new.

The Visionary Newsletter January-March 2023 Edition

 

 

 



 

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