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A case of Miller Fisher Syndrome and bilateral asymmetric globe retraction

1 February 2022 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS) is a rare, acquired nerve disease that is considered to be a variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome. It was first recognised by James Collier in 1932 as a clinical triad of ataxia, areflexia and ophthalmoplegia. Later, it...

Globes in space: What would happen to our globes on the globe of Mars?

1 April 2018 | | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Many films have been made regarding life on alternative planets. With the Mars One mission approaching in 2023, there are high expectations regarding future interplanetary travel. The authors provide an ophthalmology perspective on what could happen to our eyes if...

The clues of the eye – what is medical ophthalmology?

1 February 2022 |
The author looks at the increasingly significant role of medical ophthalmologists and the importance of integrative healthcare. The eye is a remarkable organ, and for decades we have been discovering intimations of pathology existing elsewhere in the body [1] simply...

Patient safety – is this achieved in optometry with CET?

1 August 2018 | | EYE - General
Collecting points and ticking boxes – as we come to the end of another three year cycle of continuing education and training (CET), the rush to ensure that everything has been completed on the myGOC (General Optical Council) dashboard feels...

Headset perimetry

3 April 2023 | | EYE - General
Visual field analysers are traditionally large table mounted devices, designed specifically for field capture and analysis. Over the last year or so a number of companies have started to disrupt this space with the introduction of headset-based field analysers, mostly...

OBITUARY: James Finbarr (Barry) Cullen

16 October 2020 | | 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...

Novel changes during COVID-19 – transforming a walk-in Eye Casualty to a telephone triage service

18 February 2021 | | EYE - General
With the current pandemic climate due to COVID-19, out of the norm approaches have been adopted in different hospitals across the UK to ensure patient safety. At our Eye Casualty (EC) department at Northampton General Hospital (NGH), we felt the...

Game show freak

3 April 2023 | | EYE - General
As a child of the 70s and 80s, there were limited television viewing opportunities. For the duration of the 70s there were only three channels, only moving to four with the launch of Channel 4 in 1982. Not only that,...

Part 1: Good news, bad news at the international conference

3 June 2024 | | EYE - General
One of my favourite comic strips from my childhood was Good News, Bad News which ran in Jackpot comic from 1979–1982. In this strip, the story for the main character would be described in a series of alternating ‘Good News’...

Collaborative care: The advanced practitioner in paediatric ophthalmology

5 August 2026 | | EYE - Paediatrics
In response to the increasing paediatric workforce shortage the landscape of paediatric ophthalmology is shifting [1]. As we face a striking surge in demand accompanied by increasingly complex patient profiles, alternative models of care are beginning to evolve. The advanced...

Commonwealth nations join forces to prevent blindness from diabetes

1 February 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
More than 70 representatives from 10 Commonwealth countries (in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions) and Indonesia gathered at a five-day workshop in November 2014 to establish district or national plans to reduce blindness from diabetic retinopathy (DR). The event...

Capacity building for ophthalmic nursing in Ghana, Botswana and Tanzania

2 December 2019 | | EYE - General
Ophthalmic nurses (ON) have been the backbone of eye health services in Africa since the mid-20th century and remain the largest single cadre of allied ophthalmic personnel in Commonwealth countries in Africa. Numbers are currently estimated at between 3500 and...