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New project aims to create special glasses for people with keratoconus

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 New project aims to create special glasses for people with keratoconusNew project aims to create special glasses for people with keratoconus
 
A Fight for Sight funded research study will work to create spectacle lenses for people with the eye disease keratoconus. This project aims to create special glasses that correct irregular astigmatism for people with keratoconus.
 
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A new literature analysis published in Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics, the peer-reviewed journal of The College of Optometrists, gives eye care practitioners (ECPs) a comprehensive analysis of evidence-based information needed to help manage myopia.
 
   IOB director wins Greenberg Prize for ending blindness by 2020IOB director wins Greenberg Prize for ending blindness by 2020
 
Professor Botond Roska, Director at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) and Professor at the University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science, has won the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Visionary Prize "for uniquely valuable research having the greatest impact toward advancing restoration of vision in human patients."
 
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People with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds, potentially putting them more at risk of injury, according to new research published in the journal Scientific Reports.
 
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Many of us will remember been told as kids when we refused to eat our vegetables that 'carrots are good for your eyes'. Although our parents may not have fully understood it at the time, there is some truth to this. Carrots are a rich source of the vitamin A essential for healthy vision.
 
 
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