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Optometry Today is a professional magazine, published bimonthly by the Association of Optometrists in the United Kingdom.. The magazine's content regularly includes; news and features about scientific and technological developments in the optical sector, changes to legislation affecting optometrists and optical professionals, developments in the optical business and retail environment, new ...
The term "optometry" comes from the Greek words ὄψις (opsis; "view") and μέτρον (metron; "something used to measure", "measure", "rule").The word entered the language when the instrument for measuring vision was called an optometer, (before the terms phoropter or refractor were used).
In 2017 The Lancet Global Health Commission reported that avoidable blindness figures were set to triple to 115 million by 2050, but the latest data from the same journal has reduced that forecast to about 60 million This has been attributed in part to the function of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness in bringing together ...
2024 [2] Last updated: 13 June 2022 Norman Mangusin (born September 29, 1979), who is more known as Francis Leo Marcos or FLM , is a Filipino internet personality who falsely claimed to be a son of former President Ferdinand Marcos . [ 3 ]
The organisation traces its history back to 1946. [1] when the Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians (formed in 1904) [2] and the Joint Council of Qualified Opticians (founded in 1923), [2] were incorporated into The Association of Optical Practitioners.
Before 1968, vision research at NIH was funded and overseen by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness [2] (now known as the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke), which was established in 1950, after President Harry S. Truman signed the Omnibus Medical Research Act. [2]
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) is a membership organization for the development of optometry internationally. The WCO is the first and only optometric organization to have official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) which represents 250,000 optometrists from 75 member organizations in over 40 countries.