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Shamir launches myopia management lens

Shamir Optimee forms the first development in the company’s new childcare product portfolio and has been designed with the ergonomic development of children in mind

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Myopia Profile in focus

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SeeAbility project offers learning disability and autism awareness training

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Kush having his eyes tested at his special school

“You can really change a life with a sight test”

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Practitioner stories

A young child wearing a blue polka dot puffer vest stands in on a path through the forest blowing bubbles

Predicting progression of myopia using AI

Villa Vision reaches more than 10,500 children

The initiative, which provides education, vision screenings and eye tests through school visits in Birmingham, has dispensed 320 pairs of glasses to children

A clinician is testing the eyes of a patient who sits with their back to the camera.

Researchers collaborate on myopia management app

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UK pilot for myopia management device to be rolled out

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Moorfields Eye Charity and Medical Research Foundation to invest in children’s eye health

The charities will inject £1.7 million of funding into childhood and adolescent eye health

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“It is important for ECPs to understand what they need to look for in myopia management studies”

A girl in a striped blue and white t-shirt draws at a desk with a red and white polka dot pencil

SeeAbility encourages optometrists to respond to consultation

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“We wanted to make something that was fun for families”

A young boy is wearing glasses and walking in a wooded area carrying a bundle of sticks, with what appears to be a makeshift den behind him.

Hoya’s Miyosmart ad goes live

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A child in a striped blue and white jumper reads from a tablet

Myopia stabilises in five out of six Singaporean young adults

Proposed model for expanded Special Schools Eyecare Service published

NHS England has published an engagement document, with feedback to be made by 16 October

Health services

A father who is blind and in his early 40s, has a brown complexion, dark hair and a dark beard. He and his young son and daughter sit at a table. There is an open box of Lego Braille Bricks on the table, and they are building with Lego Braille Bricks.

Lego to launch braille bricks kit for home use

A child’s hand colours in a drawing next to a glass jar containing different coloured crayons

US study examines vision testing rates in children

A young girl blows bubbles in the middle of a path surrounded by woodland

Global Myopia Awareness Coalition launches UK campaign

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A group of six children between approximately eight and ten years old sit in a circle on grass, chatting in the sunshine

MAYopia Day 2023: what you missed

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WCO celebrates myopia management pledge milestone

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Behind the scenes at R. Woodfall’s newest location

Dispensing optician John Fried, a practice owner for 47 years, showed OT around his architecturally designed Crystal Palace practice

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Vision improves in 14-year-old with ‘butterfly skin’ following topical gene therapy