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9th General Assembly (9GA) of IAPB from 17 to 20 September 2012

The Ninth General Assembly (9GA) of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) 2012, September 17 – 20 in Hyderabad, India. The first ten years of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight have seen progress o...

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Cataract Mission - Democratic Republic of Congo

The Congo Partnership: In the late 1990s a partnership was established between the people of the Peninsula-Delaware Conference and those of the Central Congo Episcopal Area of the United Methodist church. Our Partnershi...

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Education

Using Expired Eye Drops

Although I would not recommend using expired drops in the States or if other choices are available, I have used expired eye drops in many eye situations in many countries over many years. I have never had a proble...

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Plexiform neurofibroma

I am looking for advice on how to handle a plexiform neurofibroma in a fairly classic NF1 patient. The girl is complaining of ptosis and worsening vision in her right eye although she says that this eyelid has been abno...

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The Himalayan Cataract Project

Dr. Geoff Tabin is Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Director of the Division of International Ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Dr. Tabin spends a c...

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Thank you for registering to the Mission Eyes Network! This website has been created primarily for ophthalmologists and other related personnel who are involved or want to be involved in eye missions around the world. Ou...

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Glaucoma specialists

Our recent article in Review of Ophthalmology discusses finding one's niche. If you are interested in volunteering, please click here.

Community Eye Health

Community Eye Health Journal

Community Eye Health Journal aims to ensure that up-to-date and relevant information reaches eye care workers of all levels in a reader-friendly format that can easily be adapted for training.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR): everybody's business
Diabetes is on the increase worldwide, due mainly to the rise in the number of people with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is becoming more common because (1) People are living longer, and diabetes is more prevalent in older people. (2) As people increasingly migrate to urban areas, exercise less, eat more, and eat less healthy food, more people are becoming obese – a primary cause of type 2 diabetes.
Why does diabetic retinopathy happen, and how can we stop it?
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes. We can prevent DR both by preventing diabetes (primary prevention) and by improving the management of diabetes to slow down the onset, and reduce the severity, of DR (secondary prevention).
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