Sentences with phrase «about sight loss»

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Pain free laser treatment, where tiny beams destroy damaged parts of the retina, can prevent further loss of sight in about 80 per cent of cases.

Secondly, worrying about what happens in small spans of 30 - 60 minutes is an incredibly short - sighted view of fat loss.

The medication I'm going to prescribe you will help delay the consequences of having diabetes for about 10 years, but after that, you will develop some or all of these symptoms: loss of your eye sight, loss of the use or actual loss of your legs and / or feet, loss of sensation in your hands, high blood pressure which could result in stroke or heart attack, pain in different areas of your body...» I kind of stopped hearing from that point.

Children are, rightly, concerned about the prospect of living with sight loss but adults seem to overlook this when planning anti-smoking campaigns.

The Temporary Loss of Eyesight paintings are about reality that is bright and interesting, but the person's sight is obscured, and so it is impossible to see it without prejudice.

Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.

Powell decided to donate the fax when he heard about the auction, which mainly features pieces either by artists with sight loss or other disabilities or simply local artists.

If you have suffered avoidable sight loss and have concerns about medical treatment you have received, contact a specialist clinical negligence solicitor specialising in ophthalmic injury claims and they may be able to help.