Building Climate-Resilient Eye Care, a Landmark World Health Assembly Resolution

A landmark resolution marks a significant step forward in recognizing the profound threat that climate change poses to global public health, including its impacts on eye care.

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Study: Artificial Intelligence as Good as Top Experts at Detecting Eye Diseases

The breakthrough research describes how machine learning technology has been successfully trained on thousands of historic de-personalised eye scans to identify features of eye disease and recommend how patients should be referred for care.

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Integrating Commercial Marketing and Social Marketing for Successful Myopia Management

By Dr. Gilbert NacouziDr. Nacouzi is the Director of the Myopia Management HUB at Optic Nacouzi. He is an Optometrist by trade and a Doctor in Entrepreneurship. He studied BSc…

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Healing Eyes with Contact Lenses

A cross-disciplinary University of Waterloo team has developed a new contact lens material that could act as a bandage for corneal wounds while releasing drugs in a controlled manner to…

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Read more about the article Children with ‘Lazy Eye’ are at Increased Risk of Serious Disease in Adulthood
A little boy wearing glasses and an eye patch (plaster, occluder) undergoes a hardware vision treatment to prevent amblyopia and strabismus (squint, lazy eye). Child congenital vision disease problem.

Children with ‘Lazy Eye’ are at Increased Risk of Serious Disease in Adulthood

Adults who had amblyopia ('lazy eye') in childhood are more likely to experience hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome in adulthood, as well as an increased risk of heart attack, finds…

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Researchers Develop First Model of Human Conjunctiva

The Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute produced the first organoid model of the human conjunctiva. These organoids mimic the function of the actual human conjunctiva, a tissue involved in…

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Detecting Vision Problems in Children

P VIJAYALAKSHMI | Senior Paediatric Ophthalmologist and Chief of Vision Rehabilitation Center: Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, India.Screening can detect eye conditions early – which is especially important in children,…

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