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Diabetes and diabetic retinopathy: Changes in understanding of the disease over the last 25 years and how the UK is helping low-income countries tackle the challenges

1 June 2018 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Diabetes – a historical perspective Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease caused by inherited and / or acquired deficiency in production of insulin by the pancreas, or by the ineffectiveness of the insulin produced. Such a deficiency results in...

Large language models in ophthalmology

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
Traditional artificial intelligence (AI) models typically require large amounts of labelled data for training. For example, to develop a model capable of detecting macular pathologies on optical coherence tomography scans, thousands of scans would need to be manually labelled by...

UKISCRS Annual Congress Image Contest

18 September 2025 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Are you an ophthalmic trainee in the UK or Ireland? Have you always wanted to attend the UKISCRS Annual Congress? Scope Eyecare are delighted to announce the UKISCRS Annual Congress Image Contest. Enter this contest and you could attend the...

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...

A comparison of light sources in retinal imaging

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Before starting to talk about the light sources present in retinal imaging, it is necessary to start from the base: the light. Light is an electromagnetic wave whose smallest part is the photon (or quantum of light). A high frequency...

Glaucoma UK’s Road Safety Week campaign encourages people to keep their vision road-ready

23 November 2023 | Glaucoma, Road Safety Week, charity, vision, eye tests, Joanne Creighton
Road Safety Week will run from 19-25 November 2023 and Glaucoma UK, a registered charity that provides support for everyone living with glaucoma is encouraging people to keep their vision road-ready.

SCONe Project seeks participants for patient and public involvement group to revolutionise AMD research

29 April 2024 | baljean dhillon, SCONe, project, research, scotland, edinburgh, AMD, call to action
The SCONe project, run by optometrists, ophthalmologists, and researchers from the University of Edinburgh, and funded by Sight Scotland, is appealing for participants to take part in a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) group focused on revolutionising the detection and management of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).

Katherine McVeigh

4 February 2021 | | EYE - General
In this new section we profile creatives whose work is inspired by the eye. Since I was a child, I have enjoyed art projects. It provided me with a space for creative freedom without rules or restrictions. Unfortunately, this fell...

Developing a training model to strengthen diabetic retinopathy screening through a VISION 2020 LINK in India

1 February 2022 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
I. Development of LINK Partnership A VISION 2020 LINK India was established by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 2018 between the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and...

Addressing diabetes-related complications in Tanzania and Eswatini: A comprehensive approach to eye and foot screening

2 October 2025 | | EYE - Imaging
Diabetes is rising globally, particularly in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), where healthcare systems are under resourced [1,2]. Among its complications, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic foot disease are preventable yet frequently overlooked [3-6]. These problems often develop together due...

Fundus photography in Malawi – setting up a screening programmefor diabetic retinopathy

1 August 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
We present the case of a 53-year-old lady who presented to the diabetes outpatient clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Lilongwe, Malawi. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus six years ago, for which she takes metformin orally. She...

Chrome extensions

1 June 2019 |
Chrome is the most popular internet browser, with 44% of the market share (April ‘19). The other browsers of relevance are: Safari (31%) and Firefox (14%). Both Chrome and Firefox can be used on PC and Mac. Safari is only...