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Soundharya Subramanian, BSc Clinical Nutrition, M.Sc. Clinical Nutrition (Student), MMM College of Health Sciences, Chennai, India   Introduction Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin which plays a major role in vision, reproduction, growth, and maintenance of...

Nandini Ravi, B.S Optometry Fellowship in the Department of Binocular Vision and Vision Therapy, The Sankara Nethralaya Academy, Chennai, India   Preface Accommodation is a process by which the eye changes focus from distance to near objects. This process is done...

Pritam Dutta, M.Optom Lecturer, Ridley college of Optometry, Assam, India   Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive and neuro-degenerative disease associated with various motor and non-motor clinical features(1).  As per World Health Organization (WHO) report,...

Solanki Lala, B.Optometry Intern Optometrist, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye hospital, Delhi, India   Malingering, a term used to imply condition where patients pretend to have certain symptoms which they do not experience. In a clinical setting it can falsely impact...

Mahatabuz Zaman, B.Optom Optometrist, Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati   Not so long ago, social connectivity only meant talking over wired telephones or a feature phone with our relatives and friends. Not everyone had the privilege to own a PC or use the...

Swetha Ravichandran, B.S. Optometry M.Optom Student, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal University, India   Introduction:  Most often we would have wondered why there is a wide diversity in the size and shape of pupils among various animals compared...