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Pune Restaurant employs specially-abled persons to serve customers
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], March 25 (ANI): A restaurant in Pune is the first of its kind which employs specially-abled persons to cater to its customers. The employees take orders from customers using sign language.
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Indian banks' modest recovery faces challenges from Covid-19 stress: Fitch
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra), March 8 (ANI): The impact of Covid-19 pandemic is likely to pose challenges to improving financial performance of Indian banks once asset-quality risks manifest in the financial year ending March 2022 (FY22), Fitch Ratings said on Monday.
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Study shows that mortality is associated with vision impairment
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 7 (ANI): Researchers recently during a meta-analysis found that blindness and impairment of vision are closely associated with increased mortality risk. This has prompted a need to address global eye health disparities.
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Visually-impaired man teaching music to people in Hyderabad since 1996
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], March 7 (ANI): Music cannot be sold for money, but it is something that must be felt and taught from the heart, says B Ravi Ganesh, a visually-impaired person who has been teaching music since 1996.
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Cricket tournament for visually-impaired players organised in West Bengal'
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], February 28 (ANI): In a first of its kind in North Bengal, a cricket tournament for visually-impaired players was organised in Siliguri on Sunday.
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Clinical study highlights supplement change to split danger for serious r
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Gothenburg [Sweden], February 7 (ANI): A clinical report drove by the University of Gothenburg features the danger for a serious type of retinopathy of rashness, which can cause visual impairment in very untimely infants, was halved when the babies were given a new supplement combining diffe
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A new method to predict individual risk of cognitive decline
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): The early prognosis of high-risk older adults for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), using non-invasive and sensitive neuro markers, is key for early prevention of Alzheimer's disease, suggested the findings of a new study.
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Study reveals brain-related visual problems may affect one in 30 primary s
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bristol [England], February 3 (ANI): A brain-related visual impairment, which until recently was thought to be rare, may affect one in every 30 children according to new research investigating the prevalence of Cerebral Visual Impairment [CVI].
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Researchers assess cognitive impairment in patients with breast cancer
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): A recent analysis of published studies estimates that one-quarter of adults with breast cancer have cognitive impairment before starting therapy.
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Braille signages provided for visually impaired persons at CSMT in Mumbai
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 28 (ANI): Central Railway's Mumbai division has introduced Braille signages at major entry points of Foot Overbridge (FOB) railings, major station offices, waiting rooms, lifts, water huts at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) railway statio
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Study suggests higher red cell transfusion threshold offers no advantage f
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 31 (ANI): Very low birth weight infants often need blood transfusions to survive. A National Institutes of Health-funded study suggests that providing a higher threshold of red cells within accepted limits offers no advantage in survival or reduction in neurological
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Brain implants might soon help restore rudimentary vision for blind people
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], December 6 (ANI): Restoring vision for visually impaired people might soon be a reality with the help of brain implants, due to recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), which were published in the journal Science.
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