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Secondhand smoke shown to damage children’s eyes

Callum Glennen — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:32:55 +0000

Current smokers can develop AMD 5.5 years earlier than never smokers, a study found.

A study examining the eyes of 1,400 Hong Kong children has a drawn a link between secondhand smoke and eye damage. According to researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, children exposed to
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Specsavers Clinical Conference 8 continues the tradition

Staff Writer — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 20:00:45 +0000

Back for its eighth year, the Specsavers Clinical Conference delivered two days of presentations to optometrists, locums and optometry students. In the first of a two-part series, Lewis Williams reports
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The red reflex: Effective screening or false security?

Staff Writer — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:00:31 +0000

With the invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 came the red-reflex test, which has since been used for the early detection of paediatric eye disease. DR SANDRA STAFFIERI examines its effectiveness. In
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