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Iris chafing from displaced single-piece acrylic IOL

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
A 74-year-old man had persistent 3+ cell one month following left eye cataract extraction, complicated by anterior capsular rent and zonular dialysis at 7 o’clock, with single-piece acrylic intraocular lens implantation (IOL) in the capsular bag. Figure 1: Haptic-like transillumination...

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...

Birdshot retinochoroiditis

1 June 2022 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Birdshot retinochoroiditis (BRC) is a chronic, sight-threatening uveitis, most commonly affecting caucasian individuals in their fourth to sixth decades [1]. The disease is associated with HLA-29 and is characterised by progressive inflammation at the level of retina and choroid, with...

The importance of ‘hands-on’ learning

1 April 2014 | | EYE - General
Providing ongoing professional education and development for the allied professions out of the clinic or hospital setting is often quite challenging. The reorganisation of rotas, heavy clinic lists and financial constraints all add up to making the opportunity to learn...

A Scottish first: SOC goes virtual

28 July 2020
The first virtual Scottish Ophthalmology Club (SOC) meeting will be held on Wednesday 30 September 2020.

Orbis launches podcast and vodcast series exploring cutting edge tech

7 December 2020
A new podcast and vodcast series exploring cutting edge tech to curb rise in preventable blindness has been launched by international eye health charity, Orbis.

Glaucoma UK launches new step-by-step guide to help patients with eye drops

3 March 2022
Glaucoma UK, the leading charity in the country for people living with glaucoma, has launched a new easy read guide to help patients put in their eye drops.

Glaucoma UK’s World Glaucoma Week campaign to increase awareness of glaucoma risk factors

16 March 2023
World Glaucoma Week is an annual initiative which brings health organisation and charities from around the world together to amplify health messages relating to glaucoma and raise awareness of the disease.

CALA Homes donates white boards to help pupils at Royal Blind School

4 May 2023 | Sight Scotland, Royal Blind School, vision impairment, Children
Homebuilder Cala Homes (East) has donated £3,130 to Sight Scotland for the purchase of two white boards to aid teaching at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh.

A woman who has had two emergency eye operations ran her first Edinburgh Marathon on May 28th

30 May 2023 | AMD, RNIB, charity, Fundraising
Gail Burns, from Edinburgh, ran to fundraise for sight loss charity, RNIB Scotland, who supported her father in his diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration just two years ago.

Glaucoma UK’s campaign raises awareness of glaucoma through people’s unique glaucoma stories

26 June 2023 | GLAUCOMA, GAW2023, AWARENESS, GLAUCOMA UK
Glaucoma UK is marking Glaucoma Awareness Week 2023, which will run from 26 June to 2 July 2023.

Sight Scotland Veteran’s Linburn Walled Garden being transformed into therapy hub

2 August 2023
Sight Scotland Veterans has joined forces with Cyrenians to transform the Walled Garden at its Linburn Centre in West Lothian into a therapy hub which can be used by veterans, families and the local community.