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Let there be Sight

The transformations I’ve been witnessing have stirred me for life, to say the least.

Oct 4, 2015

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“The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers”

HCP Co-Founder Dr. Geoff Tabin has been profiled by NOVA’s “The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers.” Watch a few fun and interesting video clips on this website.

Sep 24, 2015

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Gift of Sight | Al Jazeera 101 East

Al Jazeera 101 East travels with Dr. Sanduk Ruit from Nepal to Indonesia, a film by Yaara Bou.

Sep 24, 2015

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Simple surgery changes how world’s rural poor see the world

After years of darkness, they have just seen the light, and are thanking the American doctor who brought them the gift of sight.

Sep 24, 2015

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Geoffrey Tabin and the Himalayan Cataract Project

Ophthalmologist Dr. Geoffrey Tabin talks about his work restoring sight to some of the world's most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project.

Sep 24, 2015

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Restoring Sight to the Cataract-Blinded Poor

In China or Ethiopia, Rwanda or Nepal, the scenes are the same: crowds of patients waiting in the open air, bandages over their eyes. Each has been blind for months,...

Sep 24, 2015

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Sight for sore eyes

It takes Sanduk Ruit about five minutes to change someone's life. In that time, the Nepalese doctor can make a small incision in his patient's eye, remove the cloudy cataract...

Sep 24, 2015

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Miracle Mile

What do you get when you combine six eye surgeons, thirteen runners, six educators, two nonprofits, 871 cataract patients, 63,000 students, two of the fastest men on the planet, and one trail...

Sep 24, 2015

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Visionary

The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable. "Second Suns”, a new book by David Oliver Relin, tells the...

Sep 24, 2015

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