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Optometry Giving Sight Leads Coalition in Support of World Sight Day

Leading North American optometric companies, networks, schools and practices will once again join forces in a coalition led by Optometry Giving Sight in support of World Sight Day (October 13th) and the World Sight Day Challenge, which runs throughout September and October.

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Carl Zeiss Meditec Appoints Global Sales Leader for Ophthalmic Devices

The Medical Technology Business Group of ZEISS has appointed Andrew Ihan Chang to lead its worldwide sales organization for the newly consolidated Strategic Business Unit Global Ophthalmic Devices.

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RightEye Developing Eye-tracking Tests for Autism and Parkinson’s Disease

RightEye announced today that it has acquired the exclusive rights to two internationally recognized eye movement tests that help doctors more accurately and objectively identify early stages of autism in children 12 to 40 months old, and detect Parkinson’s disease in patients of all ages.

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Documentary on Vision is First Film Adapted for the Colour-Blind

Sight: The Story of Vision, a documentary on the science, medicine and technology of human vision, narrated by Sir Elton John, is the first film to be broadcast with a color correction that is adapted for the vision of people with color blindness.

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Nominees for the 23rd Silmo d’or

Silmo Paris presents the 2016 Silmo d'or nominees.

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Vision Expo Raises Awareness of Vision Health

By supporting the 460 manufacturers and suppliers who officially exhibit on the Show floor and in the meeting rooms at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, as well as The Suites in the Venetian on the 35th and 36th floors, eyewear professionals and eyecare providers attending International Vision Expo West will unite next week to raise awareness of the importance of vision health.

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Safilo Launches New Fall-Winter 2016 BOSS Eyewear Collection

Styles: BOSS 0838/S sunglasses and BOSS 0842 optical frame. These men’s sunglasses and optical frames are ultra-lightweight and flexible.

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OKO EYEWEAR Group Becomes OKO PARIS LUNETTERIE

In a desire to reinforce the "French Touch" in the creative part, the design part as well as the manufacturing part, the OKO group meets a need by recharacterizing its origins, its genesis and its geographic location and becomes OKO PARIS LUNETTERIE.

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Allergan Acquires Gene Therapy Company RetroSense Therapeutics

Allergan and RetroSense Therapeutics LLC announced that Allergan has acquired substantially all of the assets of RetroSense in an all-cash transaction.

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Wayne Gray, Vogue Founder, Honoured by Canadian Red Cross

Wayne Gray, Vogue Optical founder and philanthropic entrepreneur, will receive the 2016 Humanitarian Award for Prince Edward Island by the Canadian Red Cross in October in Charlottetown.

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