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“Robot performs cataract surgery on patient!”

1 June 2018 | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are scientific reality and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: “Robot performs cataract surgery on patient!” Twenty-five years ago when Eye News launched, a news headline such...

My ophthalmic elective: Harvard Medical School

10 December 2021 | Vinay Badhwar | EYE - General

Medical electives are an excellent opportunity to learn, enjoy and explore countries and their healthcare systems. I was grateful to do mine in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This article will share my personal experience working at HMS with...

Crystalline keratopathy in monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

2 April 2025 | Kar Yen Phoong | EYE - Cornea

Monoclonal gammopathies encompass a group of plasma cell disorders characterised by the excessive production of abnormal monoclonal immunoglobulins in the bloodstream [1]. This category includes multiple myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), amyloidosis and other lymphoproliferative disorders. Monoclonal gammopathy...

Cyanoacrylate nail glue accidentally instilled into the eye instead of eye drops

1 April 2016 | Ajai Murthy, Gwyn Samuel Williams, Hugh Jewsbury, Ayad Al-bermani | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Three hundred thousand cataract operations take place each year in the UK alone and each patient will receive a four week course of drops in order to cover them for any postoperative inflammation or infection. Accidental instillation of cyanoacrylate glue...

Launch of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service in UHWI Jamaica

1 June 2016 | Lizette Mowatt, Peter Mitchell, Tunde Peto, Marcia Zondervan | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

At 2.55pm on Wednesday 16 March 2016 the first patient was screened and given her results in the new nurse-led Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS) Clinic at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Kingston, Jamaica. This was the result...

OBITUARY: James Finbarr (Barry) Cullen

16 October 2020 | Hector Bryson Chawla | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General

On the sad passing of Eye News’ first editor and long-term contributor JF (Barry) Cullen, his friend Hector Chawla takes a look at the life and career of this effervescent character and giant of the ophthalmology world. Barry Cullen was...

Pegcetacoplan: A breakthrough treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration?

12 February 2025 | Alexander Benson, Charles O’Donovan | EYE - Pathology, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative condition affecting the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central vision. It is characterised by the presence of drusen and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) abnormalities in the absence of other macular...

A closed angle seldom comes alone

1 June 2017 | Lei-Ai Lim | EYE - Glaucoma

Case report An 89-year-old lady with dementia was referred to me out of hours by her GP with a few days history of an angry looking left eye for suspected elevated intraocular pressure (IOP). I discovered that this lady first...

Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease?

5 February 2020 | Simerdip Kaur | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General

Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related news stories and asks which are based on facts and which are ‘fake news’. Headline: Can OCT predict Alzheimer’s disease? In 1986 Hinton et al. demonstrated evidence of optic nerve degeneration...

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