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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
Global fundraising group Optometry Giving Sight says 500,000 Australians live with preventable blindness.
World-renowned ophthalmologist Gullapalli Rao, who is involved with the group, says more than 250 million people around the world are blind or vision-impaired because they do not have access to an eye examination or a pair of glasses.
Dr Rao, who is the president of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, was in Brisbane to highlight the problem at Australia's largest optometry conference.
"Seventy-five per cent of the world's blindness is avoidable," he said.
Optometry Giving Sight aims to eliminate preventable blindness by 2020.
Dr Rao says the group is working to increase the number of optometrists and improve facilities in developing nations.
"Just imagine, what we take for granted in the more advanced parts of the world is just not available to many people," he said.
The Australian director of Optometry Giving Sight, Brisbane optometrist Bob Lees, says even though there are thousands of Australians suffering preventable blindness, Queensland has some of the best optometry services in the world.
"There's no real financial burden for people to have their eyes assessed and even in the remote communities of Queensland, they're usually visited by optometrists throughout the year either by car or plane," he said.
"The availability of services in Queensland itself is very good."
Source: ABC
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Companies
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
Jimmy Choo and Safilo Group are pleased to announce a world-wide licence agreement for the production and distribution of Jimmy Choo branded sunglasses and prescription frames.
This significant step into the eyewear sector for Jimmy Choo, iconic accessories brand,
will see the launch of a complete sunglass collection in January 2008 followed by the
prescription frame collection. The licence agreement will run until 2015.
The eyewear collection, produced and distributed by Safilo, world-wide leader in high
end and luxury eyewear, will occupy a top end market position and will include a series
of lady’s sunglasses created in acetate and metal. The innovative designs will emphasize the distinctive Jimmy Choo style, with strong colours and luxurious details.
The collections will be sold in all Jimmy Choo boutiques worldwide as well as the most
prestigious and exclusive department and optical stores in the United States, Canada
and the U.K..
Vittorio Tabacchi, Chairman of Safilo Group, commented "I am especially pleased that
Safilo will accompany Jimmy Choo in its eyewear debut and our choice to work with this
brand derives from its significant potential in the fashion sector. Safilo’s high qualitative
and stylistic standards, combined with its selective distribution network, will guarantee
the appropriate product positioning for the brand. Our already prestigious portfolio will be
enriched with this new licence, further strengthening our leadership position in the luxury
fashion sectorâ€.
Tamara Mellon, Founder and President of Jimmy Choo said “Jimmy Choo is a brand
valued by glamorous women and international celebrities alike. We are delighted to
have found the perfect partners with Safilo Group, a company recognised throughout the
world for its high end products. This exciting new agreement will give us the ability to
strengthen our position as a luxury brand and achieve my original vision for Jimmy Choo
to be one of the most treasured global companiesâ€.
Source: Safilo
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Companies
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
The strategic development process for the Alessandro Dell’Acqua brand has led to a new license for the eyewear segment. Signed with Allison, the 5-year license includes the production and distribution of the Alessandro Dell’Acqua eyewear collections.
The Fall/Winter 2007/2008 collection due out in August will have 16 sun models and 14 vision models. A world preview will be presented at Silmo 2007 in Paris, the ad hoc setting for the presentation of a collection of contemporary elegance.
The Alessandro Dell’Acqua eyewear collection is based on sensuality and personality. Vision glasses with elegant lines and materials, where classic white, black, gold and palladium alternate with unique acetates in purple, yellow and red. The sunglasses frames are in red, white or purple acetate with shaded lenses and a classical retro flavor combined with white, black and flesh-colored stripey patterns, or with lace embroidery on the temples in colors ranging from red to white to peacock.
Alessandro Dell’Acqua underscores the importance of this new collaboration: “Allison proved immediately to be an excellent partner able to support me and follow the stylistic development of the eyewearâ€.
Manlio Cocchini – president of the Borbonese Group – emphasized the new licencee’s key role: “Allison is a company whose considerable know-how can provide all the strategic support required for the management of a license that is so important and key to the positioning strategy of any brandâ€.
“By joining the company, Alessandro Dell’Acqua has added to our prestige. The fact that Allison is chosen by elite brands with a high target level is a source of great satisfaction. It is an honor for us to be able to include among our brands a name like Dell’Acqua in an agreement that is, first and foremost, about style and shared visionâ€, commented Allison president Silvio Vecellio.
Source: Eyesway
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Ophthalmology and Optometry
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
Rasik Vajpayee, head of Corneal and Cataract Surgery and Professor of Ophthalmology at the Centre for Eye Research Australia and University of Melbourne, successfully sliced the tissue of a cornea into three parts, to replace diseased areas of three patients, including a five-year old.
In the new procedure which was performed last month, surgeons only made a small incision and removed and replaced the diseased layer of the cornea. Benefits of this procedure include fewer rejections, reduced chances of infection and just one month of healing.
All the surgical procedures were performed successfully on a single day, using the cornea of a 44-year-old who had died following a cardiac arrest, ethnic Indian magazine Indian Link reported.
'This technique allows effective optimisation of donor corneal tissue and complements well the current procedures of customised component corneal transplantation surgery involving selective replacement of only the diseased corneal layer with a corresponding layer of healthy donor corneal tissue. We have already started one such technique of suture-less corneal transplant surgery called DSAEK (Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty) technique at the oyal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital,' Vajpayee said.
If this medical technique becomes standard surgical procedure then it will mean that the wait for a donor's cornea will go down significantly for the visually impaired.
Source: Central Chronicle
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Ophthalmology and Optometry
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
Middle-aged men and women with a history of migraine and other headaches are more likely to have retinopathy, damage to the retina of the eye which can lead to severe vision problems or blindness, than those without a history of headaches, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For the study, published in the May 15, 2007, issue of Neurology, researchers reviewed the headache history and eye health of 10,902 men and women who participated in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study. Participants, who were from communities in Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi and North Carolina, were black and white and between the ages of 51 and 71 at the time of their examination.
Twenty-two percent of the participants had a history of migraine or other headaches. Those with a history of headaches were slightly younger, more likely to be female, and more likely to be white than those without a history of headaches.
The study found people with headaches were between 1.3 and 1.5 times more likely to have retinopathy than those without headaches. Among participants who did not have a history of diabetes or hypertension, the association was stronger and limited to those with migraine headaches and other headaches with aura (visual disturbances).
"Middle-aged people with a history of migraine and other headaches are more likely to have retinopathy,†said the study's lead author Kathryn M. Rose, research assistant professor of epidemiology at the UNC School of Public Health. “This association persisted after controlling for diabetes, glucose levels, cigarette smoking, blood pressure and use of blood pressure medications."
"Our findings suggest that problems in the circulatory system of small blood vessels may be an underlying factor. This is possible given that anatomically and physiologically small blood vessels in the retina and brain are similar," said Rose. "Our findings are also consistent with previous studies linking migraine and retinopathy with the occurrence of stroke."
Other study authors are: Dr. Tien Yin Wong, professor of ophthalmology, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne; April P. Carson, former postdoctoral fellow, and David Couper, biostatistics associate professor, UNC School of Public Health; Dr. Ronald Klein, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School; Dr. A Richey Sharrett, adjunct professor of epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The ARIC study was supported by the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
Source: Newswise
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