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Quality of esotropia referrals

The purpose was to examine the quality of referrals made for children with esotropia and to evaluate management offered prior to referral. This retrospective study identified 326 children with esotropia aged less than five years and referred over a period...

Providing well-developed education materials can improve follow-up attendance for retinopathy of prematurity screening

he authors present a repeated measures study with parents of children at risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Inclusion criteria for the study was parents with children born at <32 weeks or with a birth weight under 1.5kg. Participants...

New Treatments in Noninfectious Uveitis

As a specialist registrar training in Aberdeen there were two important lessons I learned which have proved to be invaluable over the years for two very different reasons. The first lesson learned was to never underestimate the wind chill factor...

Choosing the right FRCOpth Part 1 question bank: My Experience with Eye Academy, EyeDocs and eFRCophth

Digital revision for the FRCOphth Part 1 has never been more crowded, or more confusing. Alongside well-established favourites like EyeDocs and eFRCOphth, newer platforms such as Eye Academy are rapidly gaining attention, promising the edge needed to pass. Like many...

Commonwealth nations join forces to prevent blindness from diabetes

More than 70 representatives from 10 Commonwealth countries (in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions) and Indonesia gathered at a five-day workshop in November 2014 to establish district or national plans to reduce blindness from diabetic retinopathy (DR). The event...

Could Twitter boost the impact of ophthalmic journal articles?

*Equally contributing co-first authors. The authors investigate the link between ‘tweets’ and citations for 155 articles from five key ophthalmology journals. Social media’s impact on our lives has been significant, allowing easy discussion of topics worldwide. An increasing number of...

Katie Piper and a host of stars mark World Sight Day 2025 with International Eye Care Charity Orbis

To celebrate World Sight Day, Orbis, the international eyecare charity, hosted an intimate breakfast event this morning at the historic St Pancras London Hotel, situated in King’s Cross. The gathering brought together high-profile people from the worlds of entertainment, fashion,...

Eye drop reminder apps

There are quite a few apps in both the iPhone and Android app stores designed to help patients remember to take their eye drops. The goal here was to select an app suitable to recommend to patients. Ophthalmic specific apps...

insitro and UK’s INSIGHT at Moorfields Eye Hospital announce collaboration to expand research efforts in neurodegeneration and related conditions

The world’s largest bioresource of eye images offers window into human health and serves as basis of a new AI foundation model to boost drug discovery. insitro, a machine learning-enabled drug discovery and development company, and the INSIGHT Health Data...

Eyecare entrepreneur is presented with an MBE

The Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Body Doctor Ltd, Sue Grant, has been presented with an MBE at Windsor Castle for Services to Entrepreneurship. The prestigious award was announced in the King’s Birthday Honours and was presented by Princess...

QuickSee Free autorefractor results in outreach settings

The Gambia screening project was launched in 2022 to provide vision screening for school-aged children. Within this screening programme, the refractive error measurements of the QuickSee Free autorefractor were compared to cycloplegic refraction in this outreach setting. Six rural schools...

Hoya Vision Care announces winner of its first-ever international MiYOSMART Case Study Contest

The International MiYOSMART Case Study Contest was held at the 60th International Myopia Conference (IMC) 2024 meeting in Sanya, China, HOYA Vision Care launched its first-ever MiYOSMART Case Study Contest at the prestigious IMC meeting in Sanya, China, which plays...