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13th International Cornea & Contact Lens Congress
Sydney, 9-11 October 2010

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  This unique collaboration of the best in international vision research, education and delivery; aims to deliver better eyecare for Australia and the world.
 

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Vision CRC breakthrough technology controls myopia in children
 
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Sydney, 25 March 2010: Scientists from the Vision Cooperative Research Centre (Vision CRC) in Australia today announced that myopia, or short-sightedness, can be controlled with new technology. Watch Video here > more | archive

 

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Search for new solution to ‘old sight’ continues at the Accommodation Club
 

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World-leading scientists, technologists and clinicians have met at the 7th Accommodation Club in Miami, Florida as part of the continuing search for a new vision correction technology that will give presbyopes near vision as good as when they were young. > more | archive
Project: Mediators of neovascularisat- ion and the hypoxic cornea. While the latest generation of contact lenses have increased the amount of available oxygen for optimal corneal health, the optometry field and industry continues to work towards developing lenses that lead to an absolute minimum of adverse responses by the eye. > more | archive
 
 
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Assessment of computer generated vision charts.  Cont Lens Anterior Eye.   2009 Jun;32(3):133-40. Epub 2009 Apr 11.
Choo JD, Holden BA, Papas EB, and Willcox MDP
Adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Orthokeratology and Alignment Lenses Optom Vis Sci.  1.683 2009 Jan 19. [Epub ahead of print] 
Fedtke C, Ehrmann K, Holden BA.
A Review of Peripheral Refraction Techniques. Optom Vis Sci.  1.683 2009 Apr 1.
 
 
 
 
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