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Islamabad, Pakistan, 17 November 2011: One of the greatest cricketing challenges will be renewed today when Pakistan and India meet on a Pakistan sporting field for the first time in more than five years. But it’s the game of blind cricket that’s leading the revival of the international game.

New Delhi, India, 16th November 2011: An initiative to underpin the future development of eye care services in India and advance the vision correction industry was signed today by the Brien Holden Vision Institute, Australia, and the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), India. The initiative is set to roll out via the newly established India Vision Institute.

For the 125 million plus contact lens wearers worldwide, comfort and safety are what matters most when choosing them in preference to spectacle wear or surgery. Two outstanding young Australian researchers have been getting to the bottom of why a small number of contact lens wearers get eye infections and others don’t.

With 456 million people needing vision correction and an estimated 133 million blind or vision impaired because they don’t have access to an eye examination and a pair of glasses – including 11 million children – India faces a huge task in addressing this need. But the shortfall in vision care also represents a huge opportunity for an optical industry that is poorly developed.

Boston, Massachusetts, 7 October 2011: Australian researchers that revolutionised contact lens wear  will be recognised for their efforts by one of the world’s leading optometric research bodies, the American Academy of Optometry, at its annual meeting in Boston next week.

Can a protein found in cow’s milk help eye wounds heal more quickly? What are the economic benefits of providing low cost spectacles to people in need? What would happen if we changed the nerve patterns on the cornea? This was some of the cutting-edge research presented at the annual postgraduate week held in Sydney recently.

Developing communities with tragically high rates of vision impairment provide a unique challenge for optometrists looking to take their skills beyond the local practice. Dr Suit May Ho, from the International Centre for Eyecare Education, has dedicated herself to helping build sustainable eye care systems in the South East Asian countries of Vietnam and Cambodia.

Guangzhou, China, 10 October 2011: The Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, and Brien Holden Vision Institute recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will encourage future cooperation in clinical and fundamental research into refractive error.

The Brien Holden Vision Institute believes that investment in research produces results and recently teamed up with the University of Houston again to tackle the global myopia 'epidemic'.