Nearly half of the students screened for undiagnosed eye conditions in one Manawatu school were referred for further treatment, while 31% of all students across the five schools screened were referred, reveal the latest results from the Essilor Vision Foundation screening programme.
Ray-Ban will open its first ever retail store in Melbourne, on 3 October 2018, which it says will showcase the largest selection of Ray-Ban sunglasses and optical available in Australia, including
In a move which significantly improves the ability for healthcare data to be shared between platforms and could keep healthcare costs down, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce have
US company Web Vision Technologies has been awarded a grant to finalise the development of two new devices for NASA designed to monitor the vision health of astronauts during deep space missions. For
Specsavers has launched an exclusive, new eyewear range from musician, producer and entrepreneur will.i.am. Building on his lifelong passion for striking eyewear, the 17-piece collection is inspired by the hip hop icons of his youth, such as Run DMC and Flava Flav, and references classic and iconic
Four engineering students at Texas A&M University have developed a white cane attachment that detects objects and helps the user navigate around them using an ultrasonic sensor and a variety of vibrations.
The 13th Congress of the Orthokeratology Society of Oceania, OSO18, will run from 5-7 October at the Royal Pines Resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast.
In true James Bond style, researchers from Warsaw University of Technology have trained artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to tell the difference between the irises of dead and live people to
The American Optometric Association (AOA) has written to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, asking the social media giant not to accept advertising from online eye test developer, Opternative.
Light-activated AU-011 has the potential to be the first targeted therapy for the primary treatment of ocular melanoma, said Clinical Assistant Professor Amy Schefler from New York’s Weill Cornell
Wearing a device that identifies other people’s facial expressions can help children with autism develop better social skills, a Stanford University School of Medicine pilot study has
Researchers at Harvard’s school of engineering and applied sciences (SEAS) may have found a way to create Braille texts without resorting to the bulky books traditional Braille printing turns out -
