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Pathway innovations to address cataract services post-COVID-19
Background The demand for cataract services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was already recognised to be high and growing - in the face of an ageing population and reduced surgical thresholds. When added to the growth in demand for ophthalmic...Johnson & Johnson announces lead vaccine candidate for COVID-19
Johnson & Johnson has announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate and the rapid scaling of its manufacturing capacity with the goal of providing global supply of more than one billion doses.
Bisphosphonates can cause orbital inflammation
The authors describe four patients with bisphosphonate induced orbital inflammation and review a further 25 cases in the literature. Intravenous zoledronate was the most common precipitant (76% of cases) with the mean time until onset of inflammation being three days...Blind: Chris McCausland
In the busy, stressful lives that many of us lead, a good way to unwind in the evenings is to watch one of the celebrity panel TV shows such as Would I Lie To You? or Have I Got News...SILMO 2019: Anything goes, but sustainability grows
Trying to spot the trends at this year’s SILMO in Paris, one of the largest optical fairs in the world, was a tough ask. Thin metals, especially in rose gold, abounded, but that’s now; tomorrow remained elusive.Capacity-building through the COECSA-RCOphth LINK – linking journals in a training and mentorship programme
The College of Ophthalmology of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa (COECSA) [1] and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) [2] have a long-standing health partnership through the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme [3,4]. The LINK started a new project in 2019...The miracle of multi-professional working in modern-day eyecare
"It’s a Tuesday morning, and I’m in the presence of one of the most mind-boggling accomplishments in human history. This thing is so astounding in its complexity and scope, it makes the Panama Canal look like a third grader’s craft...WATCH EPISODE 10: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission
Welcome to the 10th episode of Beyond 2020, the video series from Andean Medical Mission | Bolivian Medical Charity that looks at strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services and shares ideas and solutions to common...Discovery Park Ventures invests £100K in new tenant Vox Imaging Technology
Discovery Park Ventures invests £100K in new tenant Vox Imaging Technology to advance ophthalmic imaging for preclinical research.Empatheyes
For Dec/Jan 2024 we are showcasing a remarkably well-named technological solution. Empatheyes provides a unique way for people to increase their understanding of the experience of having a sight disorder. Whether for parents of children with sight disorders, corporate awareness...
Strabismus detection by Plusoptix S08
In this study the authors evaluate the accuracy and sensitivity of the Plusoptix S08 photoscreener in detecting strabismus problems in 83 patients aged from six months to 40 years (mean 105 months). A pass was achieved for 25 patients and...
