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IDEAS van to help prevent avoidable blindness in Qld communities
Queensland Health has provided $5 million to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in a world-first project aimed at treating and preventing...
Read moreLuxottica increased wholesale and retail revenues in 3Q
Italy-based Luxottica Group SpA reported total net sales of euro 1.8 billion for the third quarter, along with a record-setting...
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Insurer offers professional-indemnity cover for Specsavers JV optometrists
Global insurer Aon is offering professional-indnity-insurance cover to optometrists who are Specsavers' joint-venture partners. That came about in response to...
Read moreItaly moves to fund off-label use of drug; follow-on to $1.72bn damages
The Italian government will pay for patients to be treated for age-related macular degeneration with Roche's Avastin, a drug not...
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Inaugural BCLA Industry Award goes to inventor of keratoconus lens
Paul Rose, inventor of the Rose K lens for keratoconus, has been named at the first-ever recipient of the British...
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Identifying those at risk of high myopia: estimated 20% of total
- By Lewis Williams, PhD
Read moreJapan approves drug for myopic CNV
The approvals, and the sales, just keep piling up for Eylea, the blockbuster that Bayer shares with developer Regeneron.A short...
Read moreIACLE to hold World Congress on CL Education in May
Kingdom in May 2015 for the International Association of Contact Lens Educators' 'Third IACLE World Congress on Contact Lens Education'.
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Inaugural Focus Conference held in Melbourne; 28.5 CPD points
The inaugural Focus Conference was held in Melbourne on 25 May, with 82 keen optometrists assbled at the Melbourne Exhibition...
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Inserted nanotechnology film to simulate defective retinas
Scientists from Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusal and Tel Aviv University, and the United Kingdom's Newcastle University have published (Bareket...
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