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Archive for April, 2008

For the first time scientists have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness.

 In four of the six young people who received the treatment, teams of researchers in the United States and Britain reported sight improvement. Two of the volunteers who could only see hand motions were able to read a few lines of an eye chart within weeks.

“It’s a phenomenal breakthrough,” said Stephen Rose, chief research officer of the Foundation Fighting Blindness.

If successful in larger numbers, experts said, the technique has the potential to reverse blindness from other kinds of inherited eye diseases.

The two teams of scientists, working separately, each tested gene replacement therapy in three patients with a form of a rare hereditary eye disease called Leber’s congenital amaurosis. There’s no treatment for the disease, which appears early in infancy and causes severe vision loss, especially at night.

An estimated 2,000 Americans have the form of the disease they targeted.

Read the full story here:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20080427-1032-visionrestored.html

51-year old Briton Jan Dinsdale is anxious to play at the Nedbank SA Disabled Golf Open 2008 at Erinvale Golf Estate from May 5-8.

There will be 11 international players in the tournament including Dinsdale and defending champion and leg amputee Mick Horsley from England who is chasing his third title on South African soil.

Dinsdale, lost her sight in 1996 due to cone-rod dystrophy and took up golf two years later. She has proved to be an excellent player in the last 10 years.

During the 2004 Canadian Open in Kelowna, she recorded the first hole-in-one by a visually impaired or blind female golfer.

Dinsdale says the advantage to being visually impaired is that she visualises the hole from fairway to green but doesn’t have to worry about the impending doom that sighted players have to face such as hazards, rough and bunkers.

Read the entire story here:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_News&set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=nw20080421131219972C664328

Imagine being able to make money using just your phone and the internet. It is a great opportunity for blind persons who are unemployed, under-employed or are looking for work for themselves or from home.

Using teleseminars, you can hold training calls and have other people pay to attend the calls. Everything can be marketed online and after the live calls, the recorded calls can be sold also.

To do this you can use a free bridge line which allows you to call in and host the call and also allows the teleseminar attendees to use their phones to attend. There are also services that offer people the option of attending by phone or listening to a web simulcast.

BOSS member Keith Bundy has used this technique to teach a call on Braille Notes. Keith promoted his paid course by hosting free teleseminars so that people could find out more about the program while at the same time discovering what it was like to attend a teleseminar and to listen to Keith teach before they ever paid for the training.

If you are blind or visually impaired and would like to know more about the Blind Online Success System, click here.

If the idea of hosting teleseminars sounds intriguing but you are not blind or visually impaired, contact Lori Steffen and Jeff Wark, Co-Founders of BOSS to find out more. Click here for contact info