Oprah Winfrey’s speech makes a mark at Golden Globes; so does her eyewear!

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It was not just Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech that made waves at the 2018 Golden Globes award recently; it was also her choice of eyewear that sent the makers – Sospiri eyewear trending on social media. Her glasses, a pair of stylish black horn-rims from the Sospiri Collection framed her face perfectly. She looked every bit her graceful and classy self with powerful personal style. (more…)

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IACLE Names Jordanian Optometrist Contact Lens Educator of the Year

Among those to receive the 2017 IACLE Contact Lens Educator of the Year Awards is Jordanian optometrist and Chairman of the optometry department at Amman Ahliyah University, Dr. Yazan Gammoh.…

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Preserving vision for astronauts

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JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata sits in the chin rest during an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) session on ISS. Credit: NASA

Many astronauts who come back from space experience poorer vision after flight, some even years after, and researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are working to see why. (more…)

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Feeling Van Gogh on World Sight Day

  Image source: facebook.com/vangoghmuseum - Van Gogh Museum marked the 2016 World Sight Day celebration with free multi-sensory tours to focus global attention on blindness & vision impairment. The programme, called "Feeling…

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Nobel Prize: Optical Legacies

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eyezone-blog-nobel-prizeOct 3, 2016: Announcement of winners of the Nobel Prize 2016 kicked off in the following categories: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Peace, and Economic Science. Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, bagged the Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of mechanisms for autophagy. While the announcements continue and as we await awardees in other categories, let’s take a glimpse of the optical industry’s major contributors to scientific development.

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