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BOAS 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
We are excited to announce the upcoming 23rd BOAS Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held at the prestigious Royal Society of Medicine in London on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th September 2025. This event offers an exceptional opportunity for...Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Efferent course 2026
Objective: the aim is to review the physiology and the pathology of eye movements.Birmingham Neuro-Ophthalmology Afferent course 2026
Objective: the aim is to review the physiology and the pathology of optic nerve disorders.Eyes on the road – visual standards for car drivers
The author examines the current visual standards required by drivers and asks whether more needs to be done to make roads safer. Are the public adequately protected by the current system of visual standards required by drivers? In a survey...
Risk factors and untreated POAG
The authors examined 50 untreated open angle glaucoma patients to determine if there was an association between the level of glaucomatous damage and documented risk factors. In this study the authors measured the extent of morphologic and functional glaucomatous damage...Hot debates in medical retina and imaging: Perspectives from the Controversies in Ophthalmology 2020 virtual conference
Controversies in medical retina and imaging were debated during the Controversies in Ophthalmology 2020 virtual conference held during two mid-day scientific sessions on 27 and 28 March 2020. The author recounts key perspectives and presents viewpoint recommendations from the Vision...Best way to detect glaucoma progression: by reflecting on the past 25 years
Glaucoma – a condition of optic neuropathy leading to progressive visual field loss often associated with raised intraocular pressure. It is fair to say that our definition for this condition has remained unchanged over the last 25 years and the...Serendipity
“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter” – Julius Comroe Jr (Surgeon, Medical Researcher and Author) One of the attractive features of ophthalmology, apart from the good quality of life and the relatively...Toxic nutritional optic neuropathy (TON)
Toxic optic neuropathy are a group of conditions manifested by reduction of visual functions secondary to damage to the anterior visual pathways from exposure to a toxin. The implicated toxin could be work-based, food or drink related, or iatrogenic medication....
A Handbook of Ophthalmic Standards and Procedures
This book aims to provide guidance for nurses and healthcare professionals who are new to ophthalmology and acts as an introduction to many of the basic care standards when dealing with the ophthalmic patient. It is in A4 easy print...
PlusoptiX and SPOT screening
The goal of this study was to determine whether an instrument that uses referral criteria having a high specificity (plusoptiX S08) would fail to refer children who have significant amblyopia and who would have been detected by an instrument using...
