The annual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference moved off mainland America to Hawaii for the first time in May 2018, which I’m sure helped to boost attendance and was a much shorter travel time for us Australasians. With over 10,000 attendees and thousands of research posters, papers and symposiums presented over 5 days, it was a …
The sixteenth, biennial International Myopia Conference (IMC) brought together over 350 myopia researchers from more than a dozen countries to drizzly, chilly Birmingham in September 2017, where the latest research was presented in 45 lectures and more than 150 scientific posters over four days. The session topics covered prevalence, progression and risk factors of myopia, mechanisms such as light exposure …
Read MoreLatest research: International Myopia Conference 2017, Part 1
More of the latest from the sixteenth biennial International Myopia Conference (IMC) is below – read here for Part 1. Three more fascinating areas and/or pieces of research presented at IMC, and some bonus material, are below. A more detailed write up, published in Australian industry journal Mivision, can be accessed from the link, which includes relevant references. IMC #4 – …
Read MoreLatest research: International Myopia Conference 2017, Part 2
There’s no doubt that the simplest lifestyle intervention we can advise for both our at-risk pre-myopes and progressing myopes is to spend more time outdoors. This data first came to prominence in Rose et al’s 2008 paper, published in Ophthalmology, entitled conclusively that Outdoor activity reduces the prevalence of myopia in children. Over 4000 children (half aged 12 and the …