The impact of obstructive sleep apnoea monitoring functionality on smartwatches: a new frontier for ophthalmologists
3 June 2024
| Yu Jeat Chong, Matthew Azzopardi
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EYE - General
Dawn of a new era in wearable technology? Smartwatches have really stepped up their game and have evolved from telling time to keeping an eye on our health. In February 2024, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave...
Robotic assisted orbital surgery (RAOS) – a novel approach to orbital malignancy surgery
3 June 2024
| Jean-Pierre Jeannon, Asit Arora, Claire Daniel, Jimmy Uddin, Jack Faulkner, Moshan Malik, Hubert Stein
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EYE - Orbit, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - General
Robotic technology in ENT surgery has been used in certain areas of head and neck cancer care but, in this article, we hear of an exciting development from the team at Guy’s & St Thomas’. Advances in surgical robotic technology...
Part 2: the Arclight Device: frugal imaging for eyecare
3 June 2024
| Andrew Blaikie, Sahib Tuteja, Gatera Fiston Kitema
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EYE - General
In this three-part series (Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 3) Andrew Blaikie and his team explore the role and application of the Arclight Device in Imaging of the Eye. There are many different types of ophthalmic...
My top five: Trinkets of fact or fiction
3 June 2024
| Nishant Aggarwal
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EYE - General
Trinkets of adult wisdom are often delivered to children alongside warnings of catastrophic outcomes. In this article we present five ‘facts’ about eye health and vision and ask the question: to what extent are these ideas backed up by literature?...
Bionic eyes: deciphering the neural circuitry of vision restoration
3 June 2024
| Muhammad Khursheed Ullah Khan Marwat
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EYE - Cataract
As the boundaries between technology and biology blur, retinal prosthetics, often dubbed ‘bionic eyes’, present a ground-breaking paradigm shift in addressing blindness. This article delves into the captivating scientific intricacies of these neural interfaces, exploring their mechanisms of action, current...
WHO SPECS 2030: a global initiative to strengthen refractive error services
3 June 2024
| Stuart Keel
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EYE - General
Globally, it is estimated that only around one-third of people with vision impairment due to refractive error have received access to a quality pair of spectacles [1]. In recognition that uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of vision impairment...
Insights on medical AI for ophthalmology: an update on current perspectives
3 June 2024
| Rod McNeil
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EYE - General
Artificial intelligence (AI) has immense promise for revolutionising medical practice. Generative AI is a form of AI in which algorithms are trained on datasets that can be used to generate new content, such as text, images or video based on...
Are social media promoting ocular protection in the community?
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries worldwide introduced lockdown measures to control infection, causing people to spend more time at home. This resulted in reports of increasing incidences of do-it-yourself (DIY)-related trauma. When the Covid-19 pandemic started in December 2019,...
I WILL. An extraordinary challenge for Glaucoma UK’s 50th anniversary
3 June 2024
| Joanne Creighton
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EYE - Glaucoma
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary year, we are reaching out to our glaucoma community, inviting everyone to join us in the fight against glaucoma so we won’t need to exist as a charity in 50 years’ time. Since the...
