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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>DBS Media Report <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center'><b><u><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Friday, January 20, 2023 <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/disabled-flag-football-league-forming-in-tallahassee">Disabled flag football league forming in Tallahassee</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://fortworthreport.org/2023/01/09/listen-glaucoma-can-cause-blindness-but-people-dont-always-know-they-have-it/#main">Listen: Glaucoma can cause blindness, but people don’t always know they have it</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="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=winp1taskbar&cvid=38a421778e094764b7e84fd2377cb173">I have visual-snow syndrome. This is what it's like living with static-like vision 24/7</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/mount-sinai-researchers-first-to-identify-that-two-separate-eye-diseases-may-contribute-to-common-blinding-eye-condition">Mount Sinai researchers first to identify that two separate eye diseases may contribute to common blinding eye condition</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://www.wpr.org/listen/2055941">Listen: Clinical trials to treat blindness possible after lab-grown eye cells</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><u><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#0070C0'>The Visionary Newsletter January-March 2023 Edition<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Visionary Newsletter is now available on the DBS website. 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