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Senses Foundation is hosting the 14th Deafblind International World Conference from 25 - 30 September 2007 here in Perth, Western Australia, at the Burswood Convention Centre. The theme is Ending the Isolation - fitting given that Perth is said to be...

Jacqueline McGrath is a freelance journalist who has retinitis pigmentosa. McGrath reviewed the Parisian restaurant Dans Le Noir?' - yet another place where diners can eat in total darkness. I sometimes find it difficult to manage a knife and fork in...

Researchers from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and the University of Michigan Medical School have successfully transplanted retinal cells in mice with genetic forms of retinal degeneration. The researchers hope that this could lead to a treatment...

Blogger Gordon C. Cardona has recently regained some sight after three years "of lights and shadows." In Too Blind To See? (24 October, Gordon's D-Zone) he argues that regaining sight does not necessarily make his life 'better', as many people...