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• Algeria achieves World Health Organization validation for eliminating trachoma as a major public health threat

  Published: Apr 24, 2026

  Section: Africa

  The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention officially welcomed the validation of Algeria as the tenth country in the WHO African Region to eliminate trachoma. This miles...

• UCL Researchers Identify LRG1 Protein as Primary Trigger for Early Stage Diabetic Blindness in Global Breakthrough

  Published: Mar 7, 2026

  Section: Health

  Scientists at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology have discovered that the protein LRG1 initiates the earliest structural damage in diabetic retinopathy by constricting retinal bloo...

• Innovative wireless retinal implant restores central vision and reading ability for patients with advanced macular degeneration

  Published: Mar 2, 2026

  Section: Business & Economy

  A major international clinical trial has demonstrated that a tiny wireless eye implant can restore meaningful central vision in patients blinded by geographic atrophy. The study pu...