MIAMI -- Florela Francois contacted CBS News Miami about her impending graduation from Florida International University. She has a different perspective after being born with "total blindness." ...

The question of what totally blind people see might seem like a simple one to answer, but things are a lot more nuanced than you'd expect. According to the National Library of Medicine, people with ...

Most blind people have some level of vision, but what they can see differs from person to person. Some may only see light. Others may see blurry shapes, figures, or colors. People with total blindness ...

Eight systems and organizations have partnered on research to cure total blindness through whole-eye transplantation. The effort — led by the primary award recipient, University of Colorado Anschutz ...

When Francis Soutier comes home from the Seeing Eye School at Morristown, N.J., he will find a staunch band has been gathered to help him in his lone fight against total blindness. Facing a world of ...

WORCESTER — Exercising caution and patience in his work, Eric Colomb is well-versed in carpentry and construction, as well as electrical work and plumbing. He is also totally blind. Colomb is ...

In H.G. Wells’s 1904 short story “The Country of the Blind,” an explorer tumbles into a remote mountain valley that has been home to 15 generations of blind residents. They are so thoroughly and ...

WASHINGTON — While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Sound and touch devices will be available at public ...

Normally, when we think of blindness, we tend to think of cataracts, glaucoma, or retinal diseases. There is another one, less spoken of but just as disabling, that starts with something as harmless ...

Don’t let your lasting memory of the total solar eclipse over Texas be a hole in your retina. The April 8 total solar eclipse, which will be visible over a swath of Texas stretching from the Rio ...