Sentence examples for blindness- from inspiring English sources

OH Idea: Breeding sweet potatoes to contain betacarotene, to help in the fight against childhood blindness.

The two drugs are made by the same company, Genentech, owned by the Swiss giant Roche, which has declined to seek a licence for Avastin to prevent blindness.

The women said they resisted instructions from Zanu-PF supporters to feign illiteracy, blindness or physical injury, which would have meant someone else marking the ballot on their behalf.

All countries should make available a cheap, unlicensed drug to prevent blindness in older people – one in preference to the expensive licensed version promoted by pharmaceutical companies, a World Health Organisation committee has ruled.

He always wore signature dark glasses, not because he wanted to appear sinister or intimidating, but because of the snow blindness that had damaged his eyes during wartime imprisonment in a Soviet labour camp.

This keeps costs down and ensures the maximum benefits for patients; children and adults received praziquantel drugs to treat their schistosomiasis, as well as other medicines for intestinal worms, trachoma, and onchocerciasis (river blindness).

Problem: More than 3 million children in Africa suffer from blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency; in Uganda it is estimated that 28% of children are deficient.

The overall risk is still small (3.5 per 10,000 people wearing daily soft lenses), but keratitis is painful, can make your eyes weep and causes blindness.

The race raises funds for Seeing is Believing, a global initiative that helps tackle avoidable blindness.

It's hard to equate the word blindness with skiing at 95mph.

But there's a simple explanation: we have reached the part of the campaign where politicians and the media are all dog-tired, have no idea which bit of the country they're in today and have a form of snow-blindness from the blizzard of policies the parties have pumped out.