Digital Optometry will be contributing R2 million rand to support the study of Optometry across South Africa with the donation of over R600 000 worth of optometric software, as well as a prize to the top performing optometric student participating universities.
24 Jan 2012 11:37
The first patient to receive gene therapy for an incurable type of blindness was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford last week as part of a trial led by Oxford University.
1 Nov 2011 11:50
[Graham Anderson] Your eyes are windows to the world, but many of us aren't blessed with 20/20 vision. Even so, you can take your blinkers off when it comes to eye-care, especially during September, Eye-care Awareness Month.
14 Sep 2011 10:07
Two students from the Umzi Wethu hospitality training academy in Port Elizabeth can now 'see clearly' thanks to the sponsorship of Spec-Savers. Lifa Tshali and Lerato Tau received their glasses from Spec-Savers Greenacres franchisee, Antonie Wolmarans on Monday, 29 August 2011.
31 Aug 2011 10:01[Enrique Rivero] A UCLA-Harvard study has highlighted three types of confusing outcome measures. Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests.
26 Aug 2011 09:19 
World Retina Week - 19-25 September - kicks off Eye Care Awareness Month in South Africa.
25 Aug 2011 14:00
South Africa's National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme will cost taxpayers R225 billion by 2025 when it is fully implemented according to a report published on
Times Live today. It quotes Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, expenditure on the plan will rise to R103 million this year.
12 Aug 2011 12:20
Testing the power of regenerative medicine to treat eye diseases, surgeons at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute on Tuesday successfully transplanted highly specialised cells derived from human embryonic stem cells into the eyes of two patients.
21 Jul 2011 09:43
Digital Optometry, based in Port Elizabeth, has announced the launch of Spectrum digital eye test software in Australia. A team from the company will be travelling to the annual Optical distributors and manufacturers association of Australia (ODMA) show which takes place from 5-7 August in Sydney.
21 Jul 2011 09:38[D.J. Martin] Stephanie Meyer, a physicist specialising in optics, is bringing new capabilities to the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus by building an advanced, super resolution microscope able to see some of the innermost workings of the cell.
21 Jul 2011 09:28 
Being blind can be a death sentence to a child in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the highest prevalence of blindness in the world - 1.24 per 1000 children, compared to 0.8 in India and 0.3 in Europe. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that up to 60% of infants that go blind in poorer socio-economic groups are likely to die within two years of becoming blind. What is of concern is the fact that approximately 50% of childhood blindness is avoidable.
4 May 2011 13:51
Researchers at Riken, a research institution in Japan, have developed an eye.
12 Apr 2011 13:46
Mechanisms underlying improved somatosensory function of animals with visual loss - the study by Takuya Takahashi, Professor of Graduate School of Medicine, is published online in
Neuron.
4 Apr 2011 11:43
SINGAPORE: The contact lens industry continues to perform well in 2010, registering a healthy 12% growth across the five combined markets monitored by GfK Asia - Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. According to GfK's full year retail audit findings, all these markets expanded in value within the range of 9 to 12%.
29 Mar 2011 07:53
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