(PRESS RELEASE) CHICAGO — Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, is issuing the call for nominations for the “ 2025 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in ...

Glaucoma affects an estimated 4.2 million people in the United States and is often called the silent thief of sight because ...

AMD is one of the leading causes of blindness in those 60 and older. The disease impairs central vision and limits a person’s ...

The nonprofit eye health and safety organization Prevent Blindness has received its largest ever monetary donation from the ...

Prevent Blindness again has declared February as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Awareness month. The nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization offers a ...

A blind child is more likely to live in socioeconomic deprivation, to be more frequently hospitalised during childhood and to die in childhood than a child not living with blindness. This update of a ...

Although vitamin A deficiency is rare in the United States, it is the leading cause of blindness in children around the world, per the clinic. The Daily Mail first reported last year in October ...

The Tory leader signed off a report in 2015 that concluded Prevent was “subject to accusations of police heavy-handedness” and warned “the public must not be the forgotten partner in the ...

The counterterrorism agency Prevent should urgently review cases where individuals have been referred to the body multiple times but had no action taken, a former police officer has said.

One of the best ways to prevent altitude sickness is to take it slow on your way up. The faster you get to a higher altitude, the more likely you will experience altitude sickness. In hiking ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

At this point in time, there are no cures for MS. There are also no proven ways to prevent getting the disease. There is, however, ongoing MS research on MS and how to prevent it.