{"id":337,"date":"2009-09-28T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=337"},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:01:08","slug":"burst-of-technology-helps-blind-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Burst of Technology Helps Blind See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"xx-small;\">The New York Times article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/27\/health\/research\/27eye.html\">Burst of Technology Helps Blind to See<\/a>, reports mixed\u00a0news. The good news is that there is hope that the Blind can see.\u00a0Scientists are researching\u00a0different methods to help different causes of blindness and clinicians are testing in actual humans. There is this push because\u00a0about one in 28 Americans, 40 and over, are blind and have vision so poor that even with\u00a0glasses, medicine or surgery, everyday tasks are difficult, according to the National Eye Institute, a federal agency. That number is expected to double in the next 30 years. Advances in technology, genetics, brain science and biology are making the goal to restore sight more feasible. Clinical\u00a0trials include gene therapy, implanting electrodes, capsule implants,\u00a0and a procedure called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times article, Burst of Technology Helps Blind to See, reports mixed\u00a0news. The good news is that there is hope that the Blind can see.\u00a0Scientists are researching\u00a0different methods to help different causes of blindness and clinicians are testing in actual humans. There is this push because\u00a0about one in 28 Americans, 40 and over, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lorinet.info\/tbp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}