Category: Education

According to the University of Washington news release “Glasses to stop myopia or nearsightedness in children have been shown to work in a multi-site trial of 256 children and will go on sale later this year outside the United States”. Read more HERE....

We don’t speak enough about gender and blindness, but clearly we should. And, when it comes to the intersection of refractive error, gender, and blindness, the figures are daunting....

Rajiv Khandekar, MS (Ophth), PG Dip (Epi) “The prevalence of childhood blindness was 0.3 per 1,000 children in industrialised countries and 1.2 per 1,000 children in the developing countries in the year 2000. Accordingly, it was estimated that there were nearly 1.4 million blind children in the world. Each...