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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
Spring into ActionIt's that time of year once more when the itchiness starts and the sneezing commences.Well for some of us. The less fortunate. |
Soweto to Get WE SEEThe Brien Holden Institute have teamed up with eyewear provider Marchon for an initiative that will run for the next three years in South Africa to provide free eye care to children there to help reduce vision impairment.The Brien Holden Vision Institute has worked hard on advocacy to assist in the global need for vision correction. |
A Try for Goggles WearersIt's not the usual thing to see sports people wearing specs or corrective eye attire, but a change in rugby union rules recently has now opened up the possibility. |
CHECT ProtocolThe Childhood Eye Cancer Trust are wanting to boost awareness and cut the existing delays they are witnessing in the diagnosis of eye cancer in children.A new opticians protocol has been produced on suspected retinoblastoma which the CHECT are urging all practicing opticians to read and implement.While they stress that health practitioners are indeed refe |
Far East Comes CloserA contact lens manufacturer based in the far east who are already marketing their lenses as branded products here within Europe will be making their entire portfolio of products available to be marketed here in the UK. |
Innervation and MiceTwo medical eye researchers began a joint study around two decades ago that looked at eye muscle stimulation by their nerves.Along with Harvard Medical School work colleagues both researchers from the University of Iowa had been investigating subjects that suffered from eye movement disorders and as a result developed a mutated mouse subject to simulate |
Challenging Old SchoolWithout your brain making constant predictions, images fed to our eyes would be a blur of motion as images move back and forth, back and forth. Yet we are moving our eyes continuously every day, and all day, and we perceive the world to be steady and stable. |
RNIB WarningHow have you found your after care once you have attended eye clinic?Have you come away from your examination fully informed and confident that the next step of your treatment is going to be supported and successful?Well a worrying report has been released by the RNIB Scotland that claims that almost one quarter of patients that have received diagnosis of |
Optrafair Success for OlympiaYesterday marked the closure of the first London Optrafair Exhibition.Thousands attended the free event at London's Olympia which has been organised by Optician on behalf of the Federation of Manufacturing Opticians.In total one hundred and sixty companies gathered from the UK and other European countries to represent the many thousands in optical busines |
Kwale RequestA request for assistance has been made by a Paediatric ophthalmologist working in an eye clinic in Africa for unwanted ophthalmoscopes to support the work of a neonatal red reflex screening service. The service is being provided by Fiona Dean who is a voluntary worker at the Kwale District Eye Centre in Kenya. |
Scottish Venure on the MoveAnother eye hospital is set to move to better premises after it has been deemed unfit for purpose by health officials in Edinburgh.It is hoped that the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion will remain in the city center as so many health units that have come under scrutiny and advanced to newer premises have done so in new out of town spaces.Health Administrat |
Two Days better than FourResearch has shown us that embryonic stem cells are extremely valuable to doctors and scientists as at embryonic level they are pluripotent and can be programmed into anything in our bodies. |