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Global health and conflict: the unseen consequences

27 October 2021 | | EYE - Orbit, EYE - General
Global eye health inequalities stem from poor access to affordable care, causing preventative vision impairment and blindness. In 2020, a study showed that 510 million people, the majority being in low-income and middle-income countries, had uncorrected near vision impairment simply...

A connected workplace - Part 2

1 February 2019 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
In Part 1 of this topic (bit.ly/ENconnected) the need for a mature ophthalmic imaging network was described. Here, I provide a scoring scheme that can be used to articulate the maturity of existing devices. As with any scoring system, the...

Clipboard history

5 February 2020 |
If you regularly use the clipboard on a PC or Mac to copy and paste information, you will likely appreciate how useful the feature is. Despite its utility, it fails when you copy data over something else you have yet...

Open source and tele-manufacturing for ophthalmology

1 August 2015 | | EYE - Imaging
Open source or crowd-sourcing and crowd-collaboration are concepts almost always associated with software and public online projects such as Wiki project. Never had I imagined that my team would apply the same principle in ophthalmology. Just less than a month...

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...

Intraocular lens technology to deliver enhanced optical performance after cataract refractive surgery

1 February 2017 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Modern cataract surgery aims to provide patients with the best possible visual outcome with the least dependence on spectacles and minimal or no complications and to treat both cataract and refractive errors with a single procedure. Phacoemulsification is the standard...

Bridging the gap – Supporting our patients across the primary / secondary care divide

1 June 2017 | EYE - General
Providing the best care for patients is surely a fundamental goal for all healthcare professionals. When waiting-times are long and getting longer, clinics are full, colleagues are off with stress-related illness and patients are complaining, is it possible to still...

Work experience in ophthalmology as an A-Level student

5 September 2023 | | EYE - General
Importance of work experience Medical schools expect applicants to understand what a career in medicine involves, which can be gained through work experience and volunteering. It is strongly recommended by the Medical Schools Council that work experience involves working in...

The Ophthalmic Imaging Association holds successful first virtual conference

1 February 2022 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many of the things we enjoy were postponed or cancelled, including the 2020 Ophthalmic Imaging Association (OIA) conference. The Ophthalmic Imaging Association committee began focusing on 2021 but it soon became apparent a face-to-face conference...

What's trending Dec/Jan 2026

4 December 2025 | | EYE - General
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #SciFi #Vision Growing up at home, it was my job to read the crossword clues out to my parents. I usually...

What’s next in retinal imaging? Faster, deeper and full-on

1 April 2015 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
Fast-evolving technological leaps are opening the way toward clinically useful ocular coherence angiography, generating 3-dimensional microvasculature maps without intravenous dye injection, as well as whole-eye imaging, handheld patient-operated optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices and, for challenging vitreoretinal procedures, integrated intraoperative...

Cataract surgery in uveitis patients

1 February 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Cataract formation is a common complication of uveitis, causing up to 40% of vision loss in these patients. Cataract results from inflammation +/- corticosteroid therapy and is usually posterior subcapsular, but a small proportion have a rapid increase in nuclear...