Category: Uncategorized

Canada survey on eye injuries from handheld lasers is open until March 31, 2025

Reposted from Health Canada

Health Canada needs to hear from YOU! Canada survey on eye injuries from handheld lasers is open until March 31, 2025.
Please complete this short survey whether or not you have seen an eye injury from handheld laser devices for the period 2019-2024. The results from the survey will help assess whether the risk of laser eye injury has changed since 2018 and, determine if additional actions are needed to protect people in Canada.  

Click here to complete the Health Canada Survey of Canadian Optometrists

Health Canada recently published new regulations setting safety requirements for the sale and importation of laser products in Canada. The injury data collected from Optometrists in the 2018 survey was instrumental in advancing these new regulations. Additional information about the new regulatory requirements may be found here.

 

Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-A

Participants are needed for research in screening eyes of people in Saskatchewan with non-invasive imaging technologies and artificial intelligence for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.

We are seeking volunteers to participate in an eye study aimed at the early detection of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, as well as for the role of healthy control participants. As a participant in this study, you would be asked to read and sign consent form allowing the research team to have access to your existing eye images (OCT, and OCT-A).This study has been approved by the University of Saskatchewan Biomedical Research Ethics Board (ID#4760)

Recruitment poster
Message to Clinical Colleagues 
Research Certificate of Approval 
Participant Consent Form-Revised 
 
For more information about this study, or to volunteer for this study, please contact:
Neuro-Optical Machine Learning Research Program
Department of Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmacology
Email: changiz.taghibiglou@usask.ca