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Orbis UK release 2024 highlights video

Orbis UK have released their 2024 highlights video, revealing some of the incredible achievements their supporters helped make possible last year. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital completed two sight-saving missions to Mongolia and Bangladesh. Orbis's clinical staff and Volunteer medical...

Conference Report: ARVO 2025 Annual Meeting

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2025 Annual Meeting was held at the Salt Palace Convention Centre in Salt Lake City, US. This prestigious event brought together experts in vision and ophthalmology from around the world for...

Artificial intelligence and the 2024 Esme’s Umbrella Medical Student Essay Prize

Esme’s Umbrella is a charity for people with Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS), helping raise awareness of the condition as well as offering support and advice. All clinical specialties may encounter CBS, so Esme’s Umbrella inaugurated a medical student essay prize...

Developing community eye care: the evolution of Wales’ eye care services

In the third in our series about community eye care in the home nations, David O’Sullivan explains how Wales has developed its community eye care services. Since the devolution of healthcare to Wales on 1 July 1999 [1], significant changes...

Collaborating across the Caribbean to tackle diabetic retinopathy

The VISION 2020 LINKS Programme has been running since 2004, with a focus on improving the quality and quantity of eye care training in low-income countries [1]. In 2014, the Diabetic Retinopathy Network (DR-NET) was established [2]. This is a...

99-year-old Navy Veteran to attend VE Day 80 Concert in London thanks to Sight Scotland Veterans

As the nation prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, one remarkable veteran is getting ready for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London to honour the day he helped secure. Hector McDonald, a 99-year-old Royal Navy veteran from Livingston,...

Outcomes of primary and repeat DSAEKs

Retrospective analysis of results following primary and secondary descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEKs), carried out in Villa Serena-Villa Igea Private Hospitals in Italy, showed that primary and secondary DSAEK surgery result in similar visual outcomes, refractive errors and endothelial...

Advances in the understanding, diagnostic and treatment of keratoconus

*Joint first authors Keratoconus is a bilateral and asymmetric eye condition in which the cornea’s structure is affected and thinned, causing a cone-shaped bulge to develop. This results in progressive loss of vision and impairs the ability of the eye...

RCOphth (The Royal College of Ophthalmologists): Paediatric Ophthalmology Study Day

Come and learn about the wonderful world of Paediatric Ophthalmology. An all day event filled with “how to” advice, top tips, clinical pearls and practical guides for problem solving in eye conditions presenting in children, particularly on call. Become aware...

Envision Glasses – a different take on a sight impairment wearable (part 1)

In recent issues we reviewed the OrCam MyEye Pro, a glasses mounted mobile device that can assist sight impaired users. This time we are taking a look at the Envision Glasses, a comparable device that takes a different approach (see...

Letter from America: Orbit and oculoplastic fellowship, University of California, San Diego

I was the fortunate recipient of the 2012 Keeler Scholarship, granting me the incredible opportunity to undertake a fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in orbital, oculoplastic and reconstructive surgery. My fellowship mentors were the renowned Professor...

Acute management of retrobulbar haemorrhage

The authors discuss the importance of rapid diagnosis and correct management of acute RBH presentation to avoid the risk of permanent blindness. Retrobulbar haemorrhage (RBH) is an ocular emergency that occurs due to arterial bleeding in the orbital cavity behind...