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Tactile breast screening by visually-impaired show promise of early detection of breast cancer in India |
What is tactile breast screening?
When 42-year-old Manisha Anand got a call for a tactile breast screening to be done by a trained visually impaired woman, she called up her mother, a gynaecologist... |
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26/Aug/2019 |
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Government turns a blind eye to ‘Insight’ |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The deserted ground floor of the Kerala Federation of the Blind (KFB) at Kunnukuzhi bears testimony to the bad patch the institute has been going through in the recent times.... |
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26/Aug/2019 |
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Visually-challenged flood-hit to receive aid |
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Thiruvananthapuram-headquartered Kerala Federation of the Blind (KFB) is planning to mobilise funds for the visually-challenged who are affected by flood.
“We have given... |
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26/Aug/2019 |
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New optic nerve therapy to offer aid to blind |
Washington: Scientists are developing a technology that would circumvent the eyeball in order to deliver the message directly to the brain in case of visually impaired people.
Researchers from EPFL... |
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23/Aug/2019 |
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Make banking services easier for visually impaired: HC |
The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the Centre and the RBI as to what steps they intend to take in the future to make ATMs, online banking services and currency notes of Rs 50 and lower denominations... |
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23/Aug/2019 |
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Harish Rao felicitates visually-impaired student |
Former Minister and Sircilla legislator T. Harish Rao felicitated visually-impaired student Lucky Mirani, a student of Paramita High School here, who scored 10 GPA in the SSC examinations held in... |
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23/Aug/2019 |
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Keep size of currency notes same to help visually impaired: HC to RBI |
Mumbai: Expressing displeasure over frequent changes in features of currency notes, the Bombay high court on Thursday said that the Reserve Bank of India should at least retain the sizes of different... |
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23/Aug/2019 |
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Changing features of currency notes, coins often not proper, says Bombay HC |
The court was hearing a petition filed by the National Association of the Blind, claiming new currency notes and coins posed difficulty for the visually impaired people in identifying and... |
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23/Aug/2019 |
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Google Docs gets 'live edits' feature for visually impaired users |
Google Docs is making it easier for the visually impaired to keep track of real-time updates made by collaborators in a given document with a new feature.
A 'Live edits' feature allows users to view... |
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22/Aug/2019 |
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TechThursdays – Kibo XS, world’s 1st intelligent personalised scanning & reading companion |
Fifty-seven million visually impaired people in India lack real-time access to content as less than 1% of content is available in Braille. Trestle Labs, an assistive technology company, is changing... |
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22/Aug/2019 |
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