This week is National Glaucoma Awareness Week (7 - 13 June 2010). Glaucoma can only be detected by an eye test and the International Glaucoma Association (ICA) are using the week to try raise awareness to the 50% of people who are unaware they have the condition.
Glaucoma is a preventable cause of sight loss. You can read all about glaucoma on Vision Web Sight by clicking here. Testing for the condition is key and the painless eye tests are free to the most at risk group, the over 40s and those with a family history of Glaucoma.
The Press Association has published a press release of news of a new treatment for glaucoma. Surgeons have inserted the smallest medical device ever implanted into the human body into the eye of a Belfast woman, Mary McCall. The iStent is a 60 microgramme piece of titanium which drains the fluid away from the eye, reducing the pressure which causes the condition. Read all about it by clicking here.
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