VISION 2020: The Right to Sight in 7 Years?
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We applaud the authors and editors of this second issue of the Medical Hypothesis, Discovery, and Innovation Ophthalmology Journal in 2013 for presenting new research and innovative ideas on the vast array of issues and diseases related to ocular health. In its scope as a peer-reviewed journal, it covers articles and studies from leading causes of preventable blindness to promising advanced medical therapies. The content focuses on difficult-to-treat diseases that encourage us as eye care professionals to think outside the box, or in our case, slit lamp. We hope that such progressive thinking regarding visual impairment can be extended outside the clinical setting and into the communities, the schools, the nursing facilities, and homes of the patient population. Below we discuss the VISION 2020 program global activities in the prevention of blindness.
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