Recent Articles
Colour Blindness and Medicine
- Posted on June 21st, 2010
The following article was written by Anthony Spalding, one of the authors of the site Colour Blindness and Medicine. Please read on what he has to tell us about this interesting topic and visit this great site with a lot of useful information for all colorblind people interested in medical careers.
The aim of the website [...]
Color-Blind Observers for National Defense
- Posted on June 2nd, 2010
Here is an interesting little story about colorblind people working for the army. This story was published in the Time magazine on the 5th of August in 1940—so quite a while ago.
One man in 20 is color-blind in greater or lesser degree and for that reason ineligible for training as an Army Air Corps pilot [...]
Survey on Gene Therapy for Red-Green Color Blindness
- Posted on May 30th, 2010
In last autumn researchers published The Cure of Color-Blind Monkeys. This was a first big step towards a possible treatment of red-green color blindness.
During the winter some further steps were taken to work towards this treatment. You can read more about this at Genetic Screenings for Color Blindness. And now there is a survey going [...]
Curing Color Blindness
- Posted on April 6th, 2010
If you first learn about your or one of your kids color vision deficiency there is one thing which comes to your mind often just after you learned what it really means to you: Is there a cure for color blindness?
The short answer to this questions is simply: No. And the long answer: There is [...]
Living with Color Blindness
- Posted on March 30th, 2010
“Which color is that?” is an often heard question if you are colorblind. You get used to it. You also learn how to handle it like most other difficulties which arise from your color vision deficiency.
I this article of the Color Blind Essentials series I would like to have a closer look at the every [...]
