Could AI help clinicians to differentiate neurodegenerative disease from retinal scans?

Published on March 12, 2026
University of Waterloo researchers hope that the technology could one day enable the detection of multiple brain diseases through a simple eye test
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Vision Expo 2026 Kicks Off in Orlando

March 12, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla.—Vision Expo 2026 has opened its doors at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. On behalf of show organizers, The Vision Council and RX, we extend a warm welcome to all attendees and hope you have a wonderful show experience. This milestone edition marks the event's 40th anniversary and the debut of a single, unified annual show format—bringing together the entire o

‘New way to imagine pretesting’: PretestPro runs four exams in under 2 minutes

March 13, 2026
ORLANDO — At Vision Expo, the company behind the Heru Prime virtual reality headset for vision care pretesting showcased an upgrade called PretestPro, capable of running four eye pretests in under 2 minutes.“The prior experience was about 5 minutes for the patient,” Lee Kuczewski, chief customer officer at Heru, told Healio. “We’ve made one test that incorporates and weaves all of those tests