This is good news ! It’s thanks to doctors doing research in the UK .


The phone app ( application ), called PEEK ( Portable Eye Examination Kit ) was developed by experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of St Andrews, and the NHS Glasgow Centre for Ophthalmic Research. The PEEK system stores information about each patient, together with their GPS location. This can be analysed at a centre of excellence such as Moorfield’s Eye Hospital in London.




PEEK may help diagnosis of a huge number of eye problems, including glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic and hypertensive changes.


Globally there are indeed vast numbers with impaired vision ( an estimated 285 million ) possibly 39 million of whom are blind.


Unfortunately poorer countries do carry the greatest burden of eye disease. An estimated half a million are blind in the Philippines, where by far the leading cause is cataract. It’s thought that up to 100 children lose their sight every week in the Philippines, half of these being treatable or preventable, including poor nutrition, measles, and premature birth.

http://filipinaroses.com/showthread....r-Healthy-Eyes