Visual disability and blindness have significant individual repercussions, since vision is the prevalent sense used by humans at all life stages. (–) The impact of these conditions on individuals’ families, caregivers, health systems and, finally, on society as a whole, is also significant. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is estimated that more than 2 billion individuals worldwide have some visual disability type and that at least 1 billion of these cases could have been prevented. () Most […]

Professional interest management has always been factor of conflict; however, nowadays, it seems that the number of disputes within Ophthalmology has increased. There is conflict with manufacturers, health plans, government, non-medical professionals and even among ophthalmologists. One of the possible reasons for such an increase in conflict is likely linked to health companies, professional associations and interest groups that are increasingly seeking to establish their positions in the market by delimiting spaces and verticalizing activity fields, and it has been […]

Workup The workup of glaucoma has also changed over time. New tonometers have appeared, but none of them has overcome the gold standard Goldmann applanation tonometer since 1957.() In 1997, the measurement of central corneal thickness (CCT) was introduced, but there is no algorithm that directly relates it to the value of IOP.(,) Also, the role of corneal hysteresis (CH) in glaucoma has not been fully elucidated. CH may be more significantly associated with glaucoma than CCT.() OCT and OCT […]

Nowadays, the world experiences one of the most severe international public health issues of the past 100 years since the great pneumonia (Spanish flu) pandemic in 1918-1919. In late December 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital in China, has used social media to report the likelihood of a new outbreak of coronavirus infection.() After a fruitless attempt to discredit the aforementioned physician, Chinese authorities have rapidly imposed mandatory quarantine on 60 million Chinese citizens. The outbreak […]

The year started with our close sight over what was happening in China, the first COVID-19 case, which accounted for the name given to the disease caused by SARS-CoV2, identified in Wuhan at late 2019. It emerged in China and spread to other Asian and European countries; and reached Brazil in late February 2020. In March 2020, WHO (World Health Organization) reclassified the outbreak as a pandemic(); actually, we are seeing that it is not just a mere respiratory virus. […]

It is necessary acquiring knowledge in order to change, science is based on curiosity, on what we understand, build, change and propose; thus, technology takes knowledge as the basis to define our actions. We create things based on selfless attempts to improve the world. Lunar aircrafts, autonomous cars, submarine drones, clothes made with thermal wire guided by body sensors, actuators that make us experience the sensations of others, all these innovations start with the playful restlessness triggered by the unknown […]