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Two of the leading sight loss charities in the UK - the Royal National Institute of Blind people (RNIB) and Action for Blind People - have agreed in principle to combine their services across England in an innovative move which will see Action for Blind People become an associate charity of RNIB. Together the two charities will be able to share skills and expertise to reach more blind and partially sighted people with even better services.

The AOP and FODO have announced the formation of new joint committees and are inviting other optical partners to join in. Following the calls for more joined up working at the FODO and AOP AGMs earlier in the year, the aim of the new committees will be to provide a clearer focus and more united voice especially for the commercial, manufacturing and retail parts of the eye health sector.

Potentia Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company developing medicines for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), announced today that the Company will be presenting its ASaP Phase I clinical data for its leading drug candidate, POT-4, during the Retina Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, on November 7, 2008.

By manipulating the brain noninvasively in a new way with magnetic stimulation, researchers have shown that they can restore some experience of color where before there was no visual awareness whatsoever. They report their findings in the October 28th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

A universal bias in the way people perceive moving objects means that tennis referees are more likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in," according to a new report in the October 28th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.