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Where We Will Be Exhibiting 2023
2023 106th Oxford Ophthalmological Congress
New Theatre, Worcester College and Randolph Hotel
Stand 14
3rd, 4th and 5th July 2023
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MOS AGM Meeting
Austin Court, Cambridge Street, Birmingham
Friday 6th October 2023
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UKISCRS 47th Annual Meeting
Leonardo City Hotel, London Bridge
1st, 2nd and 3rd November 2023
BMEH Bicentennial Scientific Conference
ICC Birmingham
7th to 8th December 2023
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Sightcare Business Conference 2024
Telford International Centre
28th to 29th January 2024
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100% Optical
EXCEL, London
24th to 26th February 2024
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Blogs
Relieve The PressureHope for the ongoing treatment for glaucoma which is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide has come following this years Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) which has taken place in Florida.What researchers have been looking at is counterbalancing the pressure that occurs within the eye which is th |
Risk of FallingIt has been suggested that patients who have undergone surgery for cataract removal are more likely to experience a fall post procedure.Data collected has even pinpointed the exact time when that fall is most likely to occur, and this will usually fall in between completion of the first operation and before the second has taken place. |
India Mark the WeekMay 11 to 18 in India is being marked as Retinoblastoma Awareness Week and many regional hospitals are stepping up to the challenge to push the message of awareness of the childhood disease across the country. |
Monitoring our MonitorsWe have blogged before about the safety of our eyes when we are working or playing, and part of that is being aware of how our eyes are affected when we do close visual VDU work as many of us are now computer reliant.Well now a producer of technology monitors have announced the release of a range of monitors called the Eye-Care Series that are being marke |
New Software that will become Fastest ResponderThis weekend saw the third Imperial Festival take place at The Imperial College London's South Kensington campus.One innovative display that literally will catch the eye, is the development of a piece of eye tracking software that will enable disabled users without use of their limbs to drive their wheelchairs using just their eyes as steering aids.Even p |
Accidental ReliefThe largest eye and vision research organization in the world, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology is presenting it's Annual Meeting in Florida this week.The Association is made up of over twelve thousand members and eye health professionals accumulated from over seventy countries.At the meeting a new report is being publicly presente |
Are you UV Aware?It's not uncommon for people to sometimes take more than one medicine at a time. |
Caffeine May Prove Best DefenseWe are all aware that things that we choose to eat or drink can affect our health. That a healthy lifestyle includes the consumption of green and leafy vegetables, fresh fruit and litres of water.I personally enjoy a good cup of coffee. |
Irish Children being FailedFrom May twelfth through to sixteenth in the Republic of Ireland, one hundred independent opticians who are members of the EyeZone group will be making available free six point vision tests in their practices for the support of pediatric eye health.Ireland already operate a school medical scheme for children up to the age of twelve who receive optical an |
Market Growth SurpriseThe Contact Lens industry is doing very well, and proof of this is found in a data collection review that Euromcontact has just released figures on.What the review has thrown up is that contact lens penetration levels here in the Uni |
Obamacare: Will it Close the Gap?A research team out of Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine have been looking at nationally gathered information from just over a quarter of a million American adults that were asked diabetic specific questions as to whether they had received a dilated eye exam within a year. |
Keeping up with the StrainMicrobiologists have recently reported that some strains of bacteria with associations to more serious infections have developed an increased resistance to the more common lens disinfectants solutions.Researchers looked in particular at the strain of bacteria that is the cause of keratitis ( causing damage to the corneal layer of the eye) the name of whic |