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A 65-year-old very high myope lady presented with sudden blurred vision down to count fingers to her right eye after a short and sharp pain. She also described seeing a black swirly line and as all these symptoms were exactly...Eyecare professionals welcome CooperVision’s ‘Fresh Start’ initiative at 100% Optical 2024
Leading manufacturer leads peer-to-peer conversation and shares ideas on ways to help improve the contact lens patient fitting journey.Visual disturbance heralding stroke: are we seeing the signs in time?
Isolated visual symptoms may be an early presenting feature of stroke, and timely recognition of such atypical cases is important because treatment for stroke has a limited time-window of efficacy. Stroke occurs in approximately 150,000 people per year in the...Non-infectious Uveitis: Well Known, Weird and Wonderful meets You, Me and the Balloons
Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons at Aviva Studios. Images © David Levene. On an uncharacteristically salubrious 5 July 2023, the date of the 75th Anniversary of the UK’s NHS, a...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...World Ophthalmology Congress goes virtual
The World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC2020) has decided to make its June meeting virtual, to provide "an opportunity to come together, collaborate and share the latest advancements in eye care".October meeting to announce major OSA news
A major development at the Optical Suppliers' Association (OSA), which will bring significant advances for eHealth interoperability, will be announced at the 16th October meeting in London. As the speed of change in optics advances at great pace, the OSA...PREVIEW: International SPECTRALIS Symposium – AND BEYOND
The International SPECTRALIS Symposium (ISS) marks its 21st anniversary with an exciting new chapter in Heidelberg, Germany, just steps away from the headquarters of Heidelberg Engineering. Recognised as one of the most prestigious scientific imaging conferences, ISS 2025 will bring...RCN: Ophthalmic Nursing Conference 2026
Royal College of Nursing: Ophthalmic Nursing Conference 2026Blinded by an Ofsted inspection
Introduction The Association of Health Professions in Ophthalmology (AHPO) is a charity, whose objectives are to promote the practice, education, training and research in ophthalmology and vision science in the UK. The extraordinary developments in diagnostic equipment and technologies have...
