blindness
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In 1987, Merck’s life-changing pill for river blindness had no market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The work could also improve scientists' understanding of diseases that damage the retina, including macular degeneration, glaucoma, and congenital night blindness.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"Because I live with blindness and mobility challenges, climate impacts affect me differently and can make everyday life much harder to navigate safely," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
This can cause sudden partial or complete blindness in one or both eyes.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2026
It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
What seems particularly unfortunate about the break is that each man had an acute sense of the other’s blindnesses.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
Yet reviewing also reflects an era’s biases and blindnesses; even food writers’ tastes shift with the times.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2013
He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen.
From Time Magazine Archive
"How secret art Thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, that bringest penal blindnesses on such as have unbridled desires," quotes Emerson from Augustine's confessions.
From Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles by W. R. Washington Sullivan
