G. Sruthi, B. Optom Fellowship in Clinical Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai, India   Consanguinity is a mixture of two words taken from the Latin language; “con”  means similar, and “sanguineous”  means blood.  In clinical genetics, a consanguineous...

Aishwarya Gupta,  B.Optom Fellow Optometrist, Dr. Shroff Charity Eye Hospital, Delhi, India   Glaucoma is more commonly attributed to anterior and posterior uveitis. The term uveitic glaucoma is defined as glaucoma resulting indirectly or directly from uveitis,...

Thana Mohana Priya M, B. Optom Optometrist, Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli, India   Introduction While everyone wishes to age gracefully and without hindrance, most of our organs wear out as a process of ageing There are many age-related ocular changes which...

Sankhajyoti Saha, M.Optom Assistant Professor, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Kolkata, India Editorial Assistant, Vision Science Academy   Vision Science Academy Exclusive What do a Scuba diver, Mahendra Singh Dhoni while hitting the world cup winning six and a photo of...

Lakshmi Priya R.S, B. Optom Fellowship in Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai, India   One machine can do the work of more or less than fifty ordinary workers, however, no machine can do the work of one extraordinary worker unless their visual and...

Demi Janet E, B. Optom Fellowship in Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai, India   According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of your eye...

Subasree Rameshan, B.Optom Optometrist, Low Vision Care Clinic, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, India   Keywords: Low vision, Money management, braille money According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of Visual Impairment (VI) worldwide is estimated...

Tanu Sharma, B. Optom Optometrist, Vision Eye Centre, New Delhi, India   A glaucoma is a group of disorders that usually happens when fluid builds up in front of the eye that extra fluid increases the Intraocular Pressure in the eye which damages the optic nerve....

Achint Kaur, B. Optom Optometrist, Amity University, Haryana, India   “Graft” refers to transplanted or donor tissue and “Host” refers to the tissue of the recipient, thus Graft-versus-Host Disease (GVHD) is a systemic disorder that occurs when graft immune...

Abisha S, B.Optom Aravind Fellowship in Optometry, Aravind Eye Care System, Chennai, India   Has anyone heard about the term “second sight”? The phenomenon of ‘second sight’ is quite interesting, as it appears to the patients to be a ‘magical’ restoration of...

Tanu Sharma, B. Optom Clinical Optometrist, Vision Eye Center, New Delhi, India   Heavy Eye Syndrome (HES) is a cause of acquired esotropia in the setting of high myopia. HES typically presents with diplopia secondary to progressive esotropia and hypotropia with...

Somayeh Heidarzadeh, M.Optom Senior Training Manager, Vision Science Academy   Vision Science Academy Exclusive   How do innovative Projection for Myopia and Glaucoma (2010-2030-2050) contact lenses help to tackle myopia and glaucoma? Innovative contact...

Dr. Abhishek Mandal, Ph.D. Senior Business Adviser, Vision Science Academy Vision Science Academy, London, United Kingdom.   Vision Science Academy Exclusive The annual climate change conference (COP27) has recently been concluded in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The...

Kartik Kumar Gupta, B. Optom Intern Optom, BVDUMC, School of Optometry, Maharashtra, India   Background: Amblyopia is clinically defined as a reduction of visual acuity [best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) for at least two lines of visual acuity charts] in one or...