Posts Tagged ‘Awareness Days’

World Glaucoma Week aims to create greater awareness of the condition and highlight the importance of sight preservation, indicated by the campaign’s green ribbon. This week provides the opportunity to spread the word, whether it is encouraging eye examinations or discussing your family history to help prevent irreversible vision loss. To mark this awareness week, Consultant…

Did you know that osteoporosis accounts for more days in the hospital than breast cancer, heart attack, diabetes & other diseases? Worldwide, millions of people at high risk of fractures remain unaware of the underlying disease because there are no symptoms, until a bone fracture. World Osteoporosis Day, marked on October 20 each year, is…

This week is International Infection Prevention Week, where organisations across the world focus on the importance of infection prevention and the role we can all play in protecting the public. This year’s theme of Vaccines are Everybody’s Business, focuses on how patients, friends, and family can protect public health through vaccinations. Your actions and immunity can…

Glaucoma is a common condition in the UK, with around 480,000 people suffering from the most common form, but because it progresses slowly, many people don’t recognise the early symptoms. With National Glaucoma Week coming up, we thought it would be a good idea to share what we know about the condition, so you can spot it…