Registration opens for the 2014 ISGEO congress

by | Jun 19, 2014 | News

Registration is now open for this year’s International Society Geographical & Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO) congress which is being hosted by ICEH at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on the 11th and 12th of September. Register...

Methodology published for the Nakuru eye disease cohort study

by | Jun 6, 2014 | News

To date, no longitudinal, population-based studies of eye disease have been undertaken in Africa, and there have been only ten worldwide, predominantly in high-income settings. Nakuru district (now Nakuru County), is the main district of Kenya’s largest province, the...

A fifth of Nigerian adults have some degree of lens opacity

by | May 29, 2014 | News

April’s issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science publishes the latest paper from the  National Blindness and Visual Impairment  Survey in Nigeria. The authros examined prevalence and risk factors for lens opacities among a nationally...