President Barack Obama has bestowed the highest honour on an American Ophthalmologist. Professor Gholam Peyman, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, during a ceremony at the White House on Friday the 1st of February. Prof. Peyman is a professor of Optical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix and a long-standing member of the America Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. He was among 12...

  For people with diabetes, the inconvenient and often painful method of testing blood sugar levels is a way of life. But research and innovative product design by scientists at The University of Akron may eliminate the need for needle pricks, blood draws, or other invasive devices.
Researchers have developed a contact lens that senses glucose which is the blood sugar in tears, the natural fluid that bathes the eye. If sugar is not being metabolized properly and...

They are known as wearable computers and are yet to hit the streets, but already they are creating controversy. Google Glass is supposed to perform many of the same tasks as smartphones, except the spectacles respond to voice commands instead of fingers touching a display screen. The glasses are equipped with a hidden camera and tiny display screen attached to a rim above the right eye.
Google touts the technology as a way to keep people connected to their email, online...

   Colour blindness is a deceptive term in this day and age. While it does exist as a very rare condition, this term is often used to describe colour vision deficiency – which is less rare, and is something that is often picked up routinely at a child’s vision assessment at the optometrist. Eight in every 100 male patients and 4 in every 1000 female patients have a congenital colour vision deficiency. Recent Australian research indicates that one in five...