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Make eye drops part of your Ramadan routine: wake, drops, eat, pray, done!

15 April 2020 | EYE - Glaucoma

During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims fast during daylight hours, abstaining from food and drink between dawn and sunset each day. Ramadan 2020 starts on 23 April and ends around 23 May, depending on the first appearance of the...

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COVID-19 and Charles Bonnet Syndrome

14 April 2020 | Judith Potts | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology

As COVID-19 rips through the country, it is – of course – imperative that we stay at home to try and prevent the virus spreading through the whole community. We are all aware of the need to take special care...

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Designing ophthalmology services Part 2: How do we address the queues for a clinic?

1 April 2020 | Kate Silvester | EYE - General

The first of this three-part series showed how systems engineering can be used to correctly diagnose and address the causes of delays in a clinic. This second article describes how to design a more productive system that meets the new...

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The Leicester Grading System for Foveal Hypoplasia

1 April 2020 | Sohaib Rufai | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - General

The University of Leicester Ulverscroft Eye Unit have published the first medical grading system named after the city of Leicester. Infantile nystagmus is characterised by constant and involuntary eye movements and affects 24 per 10,000 people [1]. Onset is usually...

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A focus on Pakistan’s growing eye care needs: over 43 million patients treated for curable blindness free of charge

5 February 2020 | Salina Zaheen, Yasmin Riaz | EYE - General

With 90% of the world’s visually impaired living in developing countries, Pakistan is no exception to this on-going global healthcare challenge. Despite massive leaps over the last few decades in targeting this issue, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that...

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Renewed momentum in ocular gene and cell therapy, broadening application to chronic disease

5 February 2020 | Rod McNeil | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Gene and cell therapies offer the prospect of ground-breaking new avenues for the treatment of diseases, reflected in a renewed explosion of interest and investment in retinal gene therapy. Rod McNeil reports recent clinical trial readouts across a diverse range...

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Unconscious bias (part 2)

5 February 2020 | Clare Inkster | EYE - General

Does unconscious bias exist, and does training help to reduce discriminatory behaviour? Clare Inkster questions her role as a trainer. I read Gwyn Williams’ Learning Curve article on this topic a few months ago with interest, and as someone who...

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Setting up successful safe & efficient nurse-led intravitreal injection service

28 January 2020 | Sunil Mamtora, Hani Hasan, Nimish Shah | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

In September 2019, we organised a training course at Great Western NHS Hospital (GWH), Swindon, which provided presentations, discussions and hands-on wet lab experience on how to perform intravitreal injection using intravitreal assisted device (INVITRIA) for nurses and doctors from...

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Designing ophthalmology services - Part 1: How do we address the queues in a clinic?

23 January 2020 | Kate Silvester | EYE - General

This first of a three-part series shows how systems engineering can be used to correctly diagnose and address the causes of delays in a clinic. The second article, which will be featured in the April/May 2020 issue, describes how to...

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Diary from my elective: a Parisian experience

2 December 2019 | Nikolaos Tzoumas | EYE - General

The author explains how a research institute’s dedication to multidisciplinary collaboration helped him to discover a passion for academic ophthalmology. The elective aspect to the final year of a medical degree, through its change of scenery and immersion into another...

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Nanosecond laser cataract surgery

2 December 2019 | Ahmed Hamroush, Balasubramaniam Ilango | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

The authors review the evidence for nanosecond laser cataract surgery: is this the future? Cataract is a leading cause of visual impairment worldwide, and cataract surgery is one of the most successful and cost-effective healthcare interventions, with a great impact...

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Retinal prosthetics: science fiction or a vision for the future?

2 December 2019 | Adam Young | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

“Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House...

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