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Glaucoma UK Helpline achieves Helplines Standard accreditation

20 May 2026 | charity, services
Glaucoma UK’s Helpline has been awarded the Helplines Standard accreditation, recognising the quality, consistency and professionalism of the support it provides to people affected by glaucoma, as well as to the professionals who support them. The Helplines Standard is the...

Scholarships, awards and prizes

5 December 2025 | | EYE - General
Perhaps one of the less well-known benefits of being a member of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) is access to the range of scholarships, awards and prizes that we offer. Many of you will be aware of the annual...

Aug/Sep 2017 Quiz

1 August 2017 | 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
History A seven-year-old atopic boy has been treated for phlyctenulosis with mild topical steroids. However, he developed dramatic changes at the right limbus in two weeks. He also had past history of vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) with poor compliance to treatment....

Apr/May 2018 Quiz

1 April 2018 | 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
History A 57-year-old lady presents with a right subconjunctival lesion which has been increasing in size for three months (Figure 1). She has never had vision problems other than presbyopia. Past medical history: hypertension and asthma. On examination, she had...

Quiz Dec/Jan 2020

2 December 2019
History A 69-year-old female patient was referred to the uveitis clinic from her local district general hospital with a left posterior uveitis which had been unresponsive to high dose steroids. She had no other previous ophthalmic history nor significant systems...

Choroidal melanoma – breaking bad news

1 June 2019 | | EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
Case report A 55-year-old Caucasian female presented to her general practitioner with a three-month history of headaches and worsening blurred vision in the left eye. On further close questioning, she reported no eye pain, intermittent floaters and flashes of light...

Acute dacryoadenitis secondary to COVID-19

4 October 2023 | | EYE - General
Acute dacryoadenitis is defined as the rapid onset of discomfort and swelling of the lacrimal gland, classically giving rise to an S-shaped ptosis [1]. Dacryoadenitis is the most common cause of a painful mass in the lacrimal gland in young...

Avoiding investigations through history taking and examinations to differentiate serious from comparably benign aetiology

1 December 2022 | | EYE - General
*Joint first authors. Introduction Anisocoria can be a sign of neurological deficit, necessitating numerous investigations [1]. This case report explores how expensive and time-consuming investigations can be avoided by thorough history taking and examination to differentiate serious from comparably benign...

Pituitary adenoma causing compression of the optic chiasm

1 April 2019 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
A 21-year-old girl presented to her general practitioner (GP) with a three-month history of headaches, becoming more frequent and associated intermittent vomiting that did not improve with simple analgesics. There was a strong family history of migraines. She was initially...

In conversation with Dr Monicah Bitok, Global Inclusive Eye Health Advisor (CBM)

22 April 2022 | EYE - General
Eye News spoke to Dr Monicah Bitok, Global Inclusive Eye Health Advisor with the Christian Blind Mission (CBM), about the rise in diabetes-related preventable blindness, systemic ophthalmic changes in low- and middle-income countries, and the impacts of a COVID-19-induced backlog...

Leading North London eye clinic appoints retina expert to treat growing ‘epidemic’ of patients living with myopia

21 November 2023 | My-iClinic, myopia, Yvonne Luo, vitrectomy, floaters
Leading independent eye hospital based in Finchley, My-iClinic, has welcomed Consultant Ophthalmologist, Ms Yvonne Luo, to its growing team of specialists.

A case of retinal cavernous haemangioma – don’t let it slip through the grapevine

4 December 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
We present a case of a seven-year-old male who presented to the emergency eye referral clinic with red eye. He was diagnosed and treated for allergic conjunctivitis, however, on clinic review, wide field retinal imaging was performed (as has been...