The Eye Care Blog

Johannesburg (AND) Uganda has offered free eye treatment to more than 100 patients at the Nebbi hospital in an attempt to stamp out the trachoma disease which causes blindness after repeated infection.

LCA-Vision Inc. , a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus brand, announced the opening in the greater Dallas, Texas market of its 56th LasikPlus vision center.

An optometrist takes four years of school after the bachelor’s degree. They can do minor surgical procedures. An ophthalmologist goes through four years of medical school and then they specialize in eyes.

Dr. Glenn Kawesch, one of the top refractive surgeons in the world, has been hailed as a “miracle” doctor, returning vision to thousands of people from around the world who never dreamed they would be able to see clearly without their glasses or contacts.

A report by the Harvard Medical School in Boston provides the pros and cons of the surgical option for presbyopia, a common form of farsightedness.

Cuba will bring its free eye surgery program to Africa and Asia in the coming months, expanding a campaign that has restored eyesight to hundreds of thousands of poor people in 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Approximately 14 million Americans over the age of 12 suffer from visual impairment, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The most common forms are the refractive disorders myopia and hyperopia.

A non-governmental organisation (NGO), ORBIS Eye Flying International, has donated eye equipment worth 10 million dollars to the Kwara State government.

Thanks to science, people with damaged corneas will no longer have to wait for donors, as it has now become possible to create artificial corneas using biomimetic materials.

Singhvi Charitable Trust conducted a free eye camp from September 4 to 8 at Singhvi Diagnostic Centre on Triplicane High Road (Tamil Nadu, India). More than 150 persons were screened. Spectacles were distributed to more than 100 persons and 16 referred for eye surgery.