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Advocacy on the Airwaves: Pioneering eye health partnership doubles sight-saving child screenings in Zambian Province

20 November 2025 | international, charity, patient stories, public health
A pioneering eye health programme is creating a legacy for children in Zambia, having almost doubled access to sight-saving eye screenings in its first two years of operation. Working in the heart of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, the Qatar Creating Vision...

Innovations in posterior uveitis: In conversation with Dr Colin Chu

1 July 2025 | | EYE - Imaging
A research team has been awarded significant funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to develop an innovative drug-device combination that aims to revolutionise how individual immune cells are monitored and treated in patients at Moorfields...

Blind gaming group levels up at five years

10 December 2025 | patient stories, technology, services
A community of gamers with sight loss from across Scotland and Northern Ireland says its network is thriving as it marks its fifth anniversary. Formed during the pandemic lockdown in November 2020, as part of RNIB’s community work, the group...

Developments in retinal pigmentation measurement and the hopes of an equitable future

4 August 2025 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
Our AI & Oculomics co-editor, Nima Ghadiri, sat down with Abraham Olvera-Barrios from Moorfields and Anand Rajesh from the University of Washington to discuss their recent international study into retinal pigmentation and its wider clinical, technological and academic applications. Can...

The art of ophthalmic simulations

4 December 2023 | | EYE - Imaging
For Dec/Jan 2024, I got in touch with Nicky Webster, a Principal 3D Artist at FundamentalVR (https://fundamentalsurgery.com). Nicky is also a registered medical illustrator, healthcare scientist and medical photographer. With over 18 years of experience working in various disciplines within...

UKISCRS Cornea & Cataract Day 2026

16 March 2026
United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractce Surgeons Cornea & Cataract Day 2026

An elective in the land down under

2 April 2026 | | EYE - General
My clinical elective was spent at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) in Melbourne. As Australia’s only specialist tertiary hospital dedicated entirely to eye disease, RVEEH gave me significant exposure to, and enhanced my clinical understanding of, ophthalmology....

In conversation with Iqbal K Ahmed - From across the Atlantic

1 June 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
Ike (Iqbal) K Ahmed is a pioneering ophthalmologist from Canada, currently serving as Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Utah. He is also the Research Fellowship Director, Department of Ophthalmology, University...

What can artificial intelligence do to improve sustainability in the delivery of ophthalmic care?

1 December 2025 | | sustainability, artificial intelligence, technology
The 2025 NHS 10-year plan, titled ‘Fit for the Future’, emphasises a significant shift from analogue to digital, with a strong focus on integrating AI and other technologies to transform healthcare. The plan aims to make the NHS the "most...

Charity leaders, politicians, tech innovators and a national treasure unite at Vis-Ability 2026

23 June 2026 | charity
Charity leaders, politicians, tech innovators and a national treasure unite at Vis-Ability 2026 to shape a more inclusive future for people living with sight loss Senior figures from government, business, healthcare and technology joined blind and vision impaired leaders at...

From paper to pocket: Standardising eyecare with the Malawi Eye Care App

4 December 2025 | | EYE - General
Malawi’s population is mostly rural; the government and Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) together deliver about 80% of healthcare services through local district and community health facilities [1]. However, ophthalmology specialist services are only concentrated in the central hospitals....

Medical and eye health teams defy odds to deliver treatments for trachoma in Ethiopia, but millions worldwide risk return of disease amid UK aid cuts

27 January 2022
Ophthalmologists, nurses, and eye health workers in Ethiopia defied the odds to treat millions with trachoma-fighting antibiotics and surgeries - despite cuts to UK Aid assistance threatening eye care. This World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day Orbis, the international eye care...