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The David J Apple International Laboratory for Ocular Pathology – a legacy of pioneering IOL research
David Apple and Gerd Auffarth. The Apple Lab at the David J Apple Center for Vision Research in Heidelberg is a thriving international laboratory for research into intraocular devices. The lab continues the work of David J Apple, a world-renowned...
Providing well-developed education materials can improve follow-up attendance for retinopathy of prematurity screening
he authors present a repeated measures study with parents of children at risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Inclusion criteria for the study was parents with children born at <32 weeks or with a birth weight under 1.5kg. Participants...Protecting and recovering from email hacking
Over the last 12 months I have received emails from more than 20 friends and acquaintances (mostly doctors) who didn’t send those emails. More often than not I find the emails in my ‘Spam’ folder as Gmail knows they are...Ophthalmology Specialty Training 2024: What's different?
The 2024 intake for ophthalmology specialty training (OST) has undergone several significant changes in its approach towards candidate selection and assessment. This article provides a comparative analysis, detailing these new measures and comparing them against the previous year's standards. Our...Volunteer abroad: the Khmer Sight Foundation
A team of volunteers describe their experiences of working with the Khmer Sight Foundation in Cambodia. Cambodia has a population of 15 million people, of whom an estimated 300,000 are blind. This figure is increasing by 10,000 each year. Three-quarters...Virtual reality for the ophthalmic trainee
If you believe the tech blogs 2015 is the year of virtual reality. Industry experts believe this will be due to the potential commercial release of the poster boy of this new revolution, the Oculus Rift. This is a headset...Sustainability in eyecare: Climate action in eyecare
Climate change will cause disruption to critical eyecare services and increases in rates of eye disease around the world. The International Agency for Prevention of Blindness has recommended 10 key areas of action on how the eyecare sector can address...East of Ealing
“And Cain said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid. And Cain went out...In conversation with Vasuki Sivagnanavel at 100% Optical
At 100% Optical at the end of February, we were lucky enough to run into Vasuki Sivagnanavel, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at The Royal Eye Unit, Kingston Hospital, shortly after her presentation: 'Diagnostic insights with retinal ultra-widefield multimodal imaging - perspectives from an optometrist and ophthalmologist'.Oertli launches the OS 4 UpTM surgical platform along with new instruments for retina and cataract surgery
Berneck, 4th September 2025 – Oertli Instrumente AG presented its surgical platform, the OS 4 UpTM, to the attendees of the Euretina and ESCRS congresses. The platform introduces forward-thinking solutions for vitreoretinal and cataract surgery and is complemented by new...The results of the last survey Jun22
Thank you once more for your time in answering the latest survey. The first question relates to the number of staff required for a routine cataract list. There was a big variance in practice. Some of us are luckier than...
