By Staff
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 12:24 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, a leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has launched the new “Retinopathy of Prematurity Education and Support Program,” as part of its first ROP Awareness Week, declared Feb. 26 to March 3, 2024. The group is offering a variety of free educational resources to the public and professionals, including
fact sheets,
social media graphics in English and Spanish, dedicated online resources, and a new video series. Retinopathy of Prematurity is a condition caused by abnormal development of retinal blood vessels, occurring as a complication of preterm birth and/or low birth weight.
By Staff
Friday, February 9, 2024 12:21 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading nonprofit eye health and safety organization, is preparing the public to safely experience the total solar eclipse that will take place on April 8, 2024 with the
Prevent Blindness Eclipse + Your Eyes program.
By Staff
Monday, September 18, 2023 12:30 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, a leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has declared Sept. 18–24, 2023, as the third annual Inflammatory Eye Disease (IED) Awareness Week. IEDs include a range of conditions associated with eye inflammation. Different types of IEDs include
uveitis,
keratitis,
conjunctivitis,
rheumatoid arthritis and
thyroid eye disease. In addition to free downloadable fact sheets and social media graphics in English and Spanish, Prevent Blindness hosts a dedicated
webpage on IEDs and a listing of financial assistance
resources. IED Awareness Week is supported by a grant from
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals.
By Staff
Friday, August 18, 2023 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—Optical laboratory owners and managers who attended
Satisloh’s 10TH SLUGFest, a meeting of the Satisloh Users Group held this spring at the company’s headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany, got a close-up look at 29 of the company’s latest innovations in ophthalmic lens processing, including a preview of soon-to-be-released equipment and some advanced technology that is still in development. Andy Huthoefer, the vice president of product management and marketing at Satisloh who helped produce SLUGFest, shared his insights and observations about the company’s new systems and products with Andrew Karp, lens and tech editor for
Vision Monday and
20/20 Magazine.
By Gwendolyn Plummer
Friday, August 11, 2023 8:30 AM
NEW YORK—On August 4, Google’s logo looked a little different. Google often replaces its standard logo with what it calls a Google Doodle—an adaptation of its classic logo to celebrate a holiday, a person, a historical event, a work of art, or anything, really—and the subject of August 4’s Doodle was Altina Schinasi, most well-known as the designer of the Harlequin eyeglass frames. August 4, 2023, marked what would have been Schinasi’s 116th birthday, Google
reported, and with the help of her son Terry Sanders, Google created a logo that showcased her iconic design.
By Staff
Monday, June 19, 2023 12:24 AM
ST. LOUIS—The
American Optometric Association (AOA) has launched
Blink Land, a single-player mobile game that teaches players about eye health and its relation to screen time. Blink Land teaches players about better screen time habits, how to ease common symptoms of digital eye strain and the importance of in-person care with an AOA doctor of optometry. Over 227 million Americans play video games, and AOA's 2022 Gamer Survey results revealed that the average gamer has experienced various eye-related symptoms from gaming, including eye strain, headaches, dry eyes and blurred vision.
By Staff
Thursday, June 8, 2023 12:24 AM
CHICAGO—Because individuals with vision loss can experience a higher prevalence of depression, anxiety and other mental health issues as compared to their sighted peers,
Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading nonprofit eye health and safety organization, has engaged experts from around the country to raise awareness, provide education and offer newly developed resources for patients, care partners and health care service professionals. The second day of the upcoming
2023 Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit, set for July 13, will be dedicated to presentations and forums addressing mental health and vision.
By Staff
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 12:27 AM
CUPERTINO, Calif.—At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC2023) this week, Apple unveiled
Apple Vision Pro an innovative, first-of-its-kind spatial computer that blends digital content with the physical world, while allowing users to stay present and connected to others. Eyes and how people experience vision are a major element of Vision Pro.
By Staff
Monday, June 5, 2023 12:00 AM
“Insight, Unseen: How Leaders Uncover, Design and Scale Innovations,” the 15th Annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit, offered leaders of companies and organizations fresh perspectives on major business and health care trends in today’s new optical landscape. In this special section recapping the day's sessions, read how VM's Summit can help you learn about the power of non-obvious thinking, how to cultivate trust, the changing role of human capital, improving eyecare access and doing good in the vision care space.
By Staff
Friday, March 17, 2023 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—In the latest episode of
VM Conversations,
VMAIL's video interview series with eyewear and eyecare newsmakers, Raanan Naftalovich, CEO and president of
Shamir North America, explains how the company uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology to design advanced ophthalmic lenses.
By Staff
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 12:30 AM
MARBURG, Germany—Digicon, the conference sponsored by ophthalmic lens processing equipment maker
Schneider, held here in late June, 2022, served as a springboard for launching Modulo One, the first fully automated platform for fabricating and processing ophthalmic lenses. In an exclusive video interview with
VMAIL, Schneider executives talk about what this means for Schneider and how the technology will benefit its customers.
By Staff
Monday, June 13, 2022 12:18 AM
KIBBUTZ SHAMIR, Israel—In late May, just ahead of a celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of
Shamir Optical Industry,
Vision Monday met with leaders of the company at their corporate headquarters here. In exclusive, wide ranging video interviews, three of Shamir’s top executives—Yagen Moshe, CEO and president, Raanan Naftalovich, CEO and president of Shamir North America and Zohar Katzman, chief technical officer—discussed how the company has established and maintains its position as a vision technology innovator on a global scale.
By Staff
Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:00 AM
“Discover & Recalibrate! Trends, Ideas and Tactics for Confronting Radical Change,” the 13th Annual Vision Monday Global Leadership Summit brought into sharp focus the megatrends shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this special section recapping the day's sessions, read how VM's Summit can help you understand retail reinvention, fresh branding strategies, technology’s impact on health and vision, and expanding patients’ access to care.
By Staff
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 2:34 PM
They say our eyes are the windows to our soul but apparently our eyes can also provide a pathway to the state of our mental health. Recent research by international development organization
Sightsavers,
University of Ilorin, and the
Kogi State Ministry of Health in Nigeria has revealed links between vision impairment and poor mental health.
The study estimates that blind people aged 50 years and over are nearly four times as likely to have self-reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression than those with no vision impairment. May happens to be Mental Health Awareness Month and this year’s theme in the U.S. will amplify the message “Together for Mental Health.”
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By Staff
Monday, February 7, 2022 3:42 PM
All eyes will be on Los Angeles Ram linebacker Von Miller when he returns to the Super Bowl next Sunday night. Back in 2015, Miller was named Super Bowl MVP after the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. But before he takes the field at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, he will be giving back to his new hometown of L.A. (Miller was traded by the Broncos to the Rams in November 2021). On Saturday, Feb. 12, with the help of eyewear brand
Etnia Barcelona, Miller’s foundation,
Von’s Vision, will host a one-day vision clinic for Super Bowl LVI to provide vision care and medical advice to low income children in Los Angeles.
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