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Simon Jones: Service separates

One of Positive Impact CEO Nick Atkins’ recent LinkedIn posts about the sheer volume of dry eye disease (DED) products on the shelves in large high street pharmacies raised some timely interesting conversation starters for this DED-themed issue. 

Firstly, the space allocated to the different brands and products in the store underlined how big the issue is becoming. As collaborative research led by Aston University recently discovered, more than half (56%) of the 18 to 25-year-olds it surveyed had DED according to TFOS II criteria, and 90% of them had at least one symptom. 

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