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Sight Sciences Celebrates 150th Certified UK OMNI Surgeon

13 June 2025 | Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries, Company Profiles, Research & Development
Sight Sciences is proud to announce that 150 ophthalmic surgeons in the United Kingdom are now certified to use the OMNI® Surgical System. This milestone was marked by the recent certification of Ms. Diana Urbaneja, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at University...

New Clinical Specialist for the North and National Refractive Specialist

4 August 2025 | Company Profiles, Recruitment & Personnel
Surgitrac is pleased to announce the appointment of Jessica Seers as Clinical Specialist for the North and National Refractive Specialist for lenses. With a strong clinical background and a passion for ophthalmology, Jessica steps into a dual role that supports...

Oertli launches the OS 4 UpTM surgical platform along with new instruments for retina and cataract surgery

9 September 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
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...

Surgitrac Instruments at the 43rd Congress of the ESCRS: A Successful Event in Copenhagen

22 September 2025 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Surgitrac Instruments was proud to exhibit at the 43rd Congress of the ESCRS in the beautiful city of Copenhagen. This year’s congress was a fantastic opportunity to connect with ophthalmic professionals from around the world, share ideas, and showcase our...

Imaging papilloedema vs. pseudo-papilloedema

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
Quite often, in the working week as an ophthalmic photographer, you will be given that patient with ‘swollen discs’ to image. These swollen discs could be a number of things, but mainly fall into one of two categories: papilloedema or...

My Top Five: Emerging technologies revolutionising ophthalmology

3 October 2024 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Cornea
Advancements in ophthalmology have significantly transformed eyecare practices. This article explores five emerging technologies that are revolutionising the field, from virtual reality (VR) surgical training to novel therapies for corneal conditions. These innovations are reshaping how eyecare professionals diagnose, treat...

The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers awards two Master’s Medals for early career research

21 October 2025 | WCSM, early career, awards, genetics, AI
The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (WCSM) this week announced the winners of two Master’s Medals for 2025. Fabian Yii from Edinburgh was awarded the Master’s Medal for his paper, 'Fundus Refraction Offset as a Personalized Biomarker for 12-Year Risk...

Typical and atypical optic neuritis – diagnosis and initial management

1 June 2016 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Optic neuritis is a relatively common presentation to ophthalmologists in the acute setting. The vast majority are cases of ‘typical’ optic neuritis (ON) but a smaller group of conditions, so-called, ‘atypical’ optic neuritides require a different work-up and management strategy....

White dot syndromes

1 September 2015 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
It is fair to say that trainees and consultants who are not medical retina specialists are a bit scared of the so called retinal ‘white dot syndromes’. It is easy to understand why this is the case, as almost every...

Charity work in Cambodia: Culture, cataracts, and cruelty

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
Cambodia has one of the lowest numbers of eye specialist doctors per capita in the world, and Bita Manzouri takes us on a journey into the charitable work of the Khmer Sight Foundation who are working to combat this. “Ut...

More action on sepsis needed as NHS Ombudsman still seeing same failings a decade on

7 November 2023 | sepsis, NHS, Ombudsman, Time to Act, Rob Behrens, Ron Daniels, UK Sepsis Trust
The UK’s Health Ombudsman has warned that sepsis is still taking too many lives due to the same hospital failings we were seeing over ten years ago.

Effective treatment for rare sight-threatening infection

1 November 2023 | Moorfields, UCL, SIFI S.p.A., Acanthamoeba, keratitis, corneal infection
A drug candidate, based on pioneering UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital research and currently under development by SIFI S.p.A., has been found to be highly effective in treating a rare sight-threatening eye infection in a new international clinical trial.