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Exciting opportunities for ophthalmic work in Victoria, Australia – consider moving ‘down under’
27 July 2023
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Recruitment & Personnel
Opportunity: We are looking to expand our growing practice of four ophthalmologists.
The GMC joins the mobile revolution
1 October 2015
| David Haider
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EYE - General
If you are an ophthalmologist practising in the UK the increasing need to log your educational activities for your Annual Review of Competence Progression (ARCP) or appraisal can’t possibly have escaped you. The existing tools in this area for ophthalmologists...
Clipboard history
5 February 2020
| David Haider
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...
Windows 10 and Chrome sharing
Windows 10 on OCT scanners and cameras It has been well publicised that Windows 7 has finally been retired. No more patches and fixes are being released, at least for home users. Some NHS institutions and businesses have expensive extended...75th Anniversary year of the first intraocular lens implant
3 October 2024
| Alistair Wood
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EYE - General
The 29th of November 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the first intraocular lens implant by our Founder, Sir Harold Ridley FRS. The United Kingdom & Ireland Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons (UKISCRS) is marking the event with a...
Retinal pigment epithelium tears
1 June 2016
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this paper the authors review the current knowledge of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears. Although rare these can cause loss of visual acuity. They can occur spontaneously in pigment epithelial detachment (PED) due to occult choroidal neovascularisation (CNV), retinal...
Ginko bilboa extract affects hypoxic retinal pigment epithelial cells
1 February 2014
| Khadijah Basheer
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is characterised by choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) formation. It is thought that localised hypoxia within the retina results in overexpression of growth factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which induces CNVM formation. VEGF...
Glaucoma medications and ocular surface disease
3 August 2023
| Su Young
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EYE - Glaucoma
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Drug allergy, OSD, drug toxicity, drug-induced cicatricial keratitis, dry eye, glaucoma medications, ocular surface disease
This literature review examined ocular surface disease (OSD) associated with glaucoma medication. The authors examined the prevalence of features and management guidelines glaucoma medication associated OSD. Fifty-eight articles published within the past five years are included in this review and...
IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’
1 April 2020
| Hannah Faal
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EYE - General
The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...
Understanding the inequalities of ophthalmic care for Indigenous people in a first world country
Aboriginal Australians have faced numerous challenges over the past centuries. Here in this article, Edward Saxton highlights why there are inequalities of ophthalmic care in Australia and why this has led to increased levels of blindness in Aboriginal people relative...Here comes the fear
2 June 2025
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse” The quote above is the Fat Man’s third law from the book The House of God by Samuel Shem, previously described in the ‘Doctor by the sea’...
Ophthalmic mentors: Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw
1 December 2014
| Pen Tee Khaw (Prof, Sir)
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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
In the second of our interviews in this series, Eye News speaks to Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw, Professor of Glaucoma and Ocular Healing, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Director of the National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields...
