COMBATTING RANSOMWARE WITH TRAINING: THE BEST DEFENSE IS EDUCATION
Ransomware is to data as Glaucoma is to Optometry. One steals away data as the other steals away sight. Ransomware, a type of...
02 April, 2021
The global impact of Covid-19 on eyecare and eye health – Part 1
The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has had an immediate and dramatic impact on eye care. Even now, more than a year since...
08 February, 2021
Public Health approaches to myopia prevention and control
The management of myopia is typically practitioner-led. Currently, the standard of care is to provide single-vision spectacle or contact lenses to eliminate the...
05 August, 2020
Artificial Intelligence and Optometry
In 20 years, will optometry as we know it exist? Will there be a role for optometry, and how will it be delivered?...
11 June, 2020
Myopia Control: Every Dioptre Matters
The global prevalence of myopia has reached unprecedented levels and current projections indicate that about half of the world’s population, 5 billion people,...
04 February, 2020
Defining Pre-Myopia: a new term for an age-old condition
Over two millennia ago, Aristotle (350BC) first coined the term myopia. He was likely describing the “closed eye” appearance of those squinting as...
20 November, 2019
Big Data Part 2
Eyecare practitioners gather vast amounts of patient data during consultations. This data represents a significant untapped resource which can be used to answer...
01 October, 2019
big data and its role in eyecare
Big Data refers to extremely large data sets that can be analysed to reveal patterns, trends, and associations unavailable to traditional research methods....
28 August, 2019
Vision enhancement and cognitive development in children– additional benefits of macular pigment supplements?
The carotenoids lutein, zeaxanthin and meso-zeaxanthin preferentially accumulate in neural tissue including the macula where they form macular pigment (MP)....
26 June, 2019
SMARTPHONE ADDICTION AND MYOPIA
Smartphones, iPads, tablets and computers are widely used at a very early age in both home and school environments. Professor James Loughman investigates...
02 May, 2019