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Revealed: The growing crisis of workplace-related eye injuries

5 March 2025 | industry, NuVision, occupational health, occupational safety, eye health, patient information
Nearly half of UK workers believe their job puts their eye health at risk, yet are businesses overlooking this critical issue? New survey findings commissioned by NuVision Biotherapies highlight a rising yet often ignored concern in workplace health; eye injuries...

Virtual COVID clinics

5 August 2020 | | EYE - General
The clinics at Ystradgynlais Community Hospital are a little different of late. The nurses are still there, I still get tea with custard creams and the letters I dictate are still all written up by the next day. But there...

Traumatic optic neuropathy

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
In neuro-ophthalmology we get asked a lot about management of patients who suffered significant trauma and presented with loss of vision secondary to presumed traumatic optic neuropathy (TON). TON happens usually in the context of significant craniofacial trauma. The incidence...

What's trending Oct/Nov 2022

3 October 2022 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
A round-up of the eye related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #teammates #warringtonwolves #keratoconus Robbie Mulhern, a professional rugby league player for Warrington Wolves, had never heard of keratoconus prior to...

Ophthalmology Foundation: a promising new beginning

3 June 2021 | | EYE - General
The world’s leaders in ophthalmology have created the new Ophthalmology Foundation, to make prevention of blindness and maintenance of high quality vision accessible to people of all nations. Board of Directors President David EI Pyott explains their vision for the...

Through the eyes of artists, part two: The effects of retinal degeneration on Degas and O’Keeffe

3 April 2026 | | EYE - General
Last issue we discussed Monet and Cassatt’s experience of painting through cataract. We now move to two stories of resilience in the face of macular degeneration, Edgar Degas and Georgia O’Keeffe. Edgar Degas. (c1873) ‘The Dance Class’, oil on canvas....

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...

Adaptive optics imaging: resolving single cells in the living eye

1 June 2014 | | EYE - Cornea
The human retina is unique in the central nervous system (CNS) in that it can be directly visualised non-invasively. Technological advances of several imaging modalities, including optical coherence tomography (OCT), multichannel scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) and fundus photography, have afforded...

Enhancing glaucoma awareness and management in Nigeria – from grass roots to national policy development

5 June 2023 | | EYE - General
This is the second in a series (see Part 1 here) of three articles about strengthening eye health services in Nigeria through collaboration with the LINKS and Networks run at the International Centre for Eye Health, LSHTM. This article highlights...

Glaucoma patients can monitor and treat their own IOP!

1 December 2018 | | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General
Simerdip Kaur takes a look at the latest ophthalmology-related stories in the news. Headline: Glaucoma patients can monitor and treat their own IOP! It is well known that poorly controlled intraocular pressure (IOP) is a leading risk factor for glaucoma...

Beyond 2020 Episodes 01-03

5 June 2023 | EYE - General
Introduction Working in remote, Amazonian villages, the Andean Medical Mission (AMM) have made progress into eliminating avoidable blindness in this small corner of the globe and have produced a video series, Beyond 2020, to share what they’ve learned over 12...

Cancelled eye surgeries could mean permanent sight-loss, warns Fight for Sight

4 June 2020
A survey by eye research charity Fight for Sight has found that people with sight loss fear their sight will further deteriorate during the Covid-19 pandemic, as they struggle to access treatment for their eye conditions.