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Haag-Streit UK announces new topography module for SOLIX (June 2025)

18 June 2025 | Research & Development
Bishop’s Stortford, UK – 11th June 2025 - Haag-Streit UK (HS-UK), the leading manufacturer and distributor of gold-standard diagnostic and surgical devices and instruments for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and orthoptists, has announced that SOLIX has a new topography module. SOLIX delivers...

Heidelberg Engineering Celebrates Eye2Gene™ AI Breakthrough in Precision Ophthalmology

3 October 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Heidelberg Engineering proudly announces a significant advance in the use of artificial intelligence for ophthalmic diagnostics, with the publication of the Eye2Gene™ study in Nature Machine Intelligence. Titled “Next-generation phenotyping of inherited retinal diseases from multimodal imaging with Eye2Gene”, the...

TowardPi BMizar: Revolutionising Ophthalmic Imaging with Ultra High-Speed Precision

30 March 2026 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
A powerful ophthalmic imaging system that establishes a new benchmark in optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA). Engineered with an ultra high speed 400 kHz swept source, this device delivers rapid, highly detailed scans of both the anterior...

Heidelberg Engineering announces expansion of market access for digital surgical visualization platform

8 June 2026 | Company Profiles, Contracts & Distributors
Heidelberg Engineering announced the upcoming commercialization of Heidelberg OPERA, its fully digital surgical visualization platform, which will be introduced through the company’s global sales force and distribution network. Bausch + Lomb, a long-standing distribution partner for the digital surgical microscope...

Quantum imaging research could improve retinal scans

28 October 2025 | OCT, Imaging, Diagnosis, research, Retina
New EU-funded feasibility project is testing a quantum approach that could reveal finer detail in the eye than ever before. A European research consortium is exploring a new quantum imaging technique that could one day help clinicians see the earliest...

IN FOCUS - The achievements and lasting effects of VISION 2020

1 April 2020 | | EYE - General
Blindness is a major public health problem globally. The first estimate of global blindness by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1972 provided a figure of 10 to 15 million, which was considered an underestimate [1]. In 1999, an extraordinary...

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...

The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020

2 August 2022 | | EYE - General
Introduction The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health was published in 2021 [1]. Drawing on expertise from within and outside the eye health sector, the Commission set out to: inform governments and other stakeholders about the path forward...

Sustainability in eyecare: Are virtual clinics the way forward in the diagnosis and monitoring of retinal disease?

2 August 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Virtual clinics can be used successfully in screening and management of ocular conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity and age-related macular degeneration. Virtual clinics should be a considered as a more clinically appropriate modality of consultation, diagnosis and...

A missed opportunity

1 February 2019 | 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
Back in 2000 Sir Liam Donaldson wrote a piece of work commissioned by the then Secretary of State for Health entitled “An Organisation with a Memory”. We are now 18 years on and still some of the recommendations from them...

Gemini Untwined: treating craniopagus conjoined twins

6 April 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
The authors discuss the successful separation of craniopagus conjoined twins at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the role of the ophthalmologist in such cases. Craniopagus conjoined twins are extraordinarily rare, occurring in only one in 2.5 million births and representing...

A tale of two membranes

1 February 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness... I am fortunate to work on a vitreoretinal firm at the moment and only a few...