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The paediatric cataract: an overview of the diagnosis and management

5 August 2020 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
In this second article (see first article here), Samuel Aryee and Rhys Dumont Jones review the challenges involved in managing this condition. Examination and diagnosis Cataracts in children can appear in a variety of forms, each presenting in a different...

Twenty-five years in retina

1 February 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
In the next of our articles celebrating 25 years of Eye News, the authors look at how the retina specialty has changed over this time and ask what the future might hold. Retinal disease management has benefited from great advances...

Pathway innovations to address cataract services post-COVID-19

1 June 2022 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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...

The history of ophthalmology: John Argyll Robertson and Douglas Moray Cooper Lamb Argyll Robertson

1 June 2019 | | EYE - General
The author shares the story of an extraordinary father and son, two of the major figures in defining the specialty of ophthalmology as we know it today. The renowned Glasgow Surgeon Peter Lowe described ophthalmic surgery in his legendary surgical...

The bionic eye – behind the headlines

1 October 2016 | | EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Orbit
Multiple visual prosthetic projects and other vision regeneration initiatives being tested in preclinical and clinical development worldwide illustrate continuing progress and opportunities in addressing profound blindness from hereditary retinal diseases and other causes (Table 1). Three implantable bionic vision systems...

Blame the lens – not its position – in refractive surprise

3 February 2023 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
Aetiology of postoperative refractive surprise Weber coined the term “wrong eye, wrong intraocular lens, wrong patient” in 2008 as an aide memoir of major factors believed to underlie refractive surprise – defined as a significant unintended difference between dioptric refraction...

Understanding amniotic membrane grafts

1 June 2019 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
Safa Elhassan gives a brief review of amniotic membrane grafts and their application in theatre and clinic-based settings. Amniotic membrane (AM) transplant has been an established adjuvant treatment for many corneal, conjunctival and scleral disorders in ophthalmic clinical practice with...

Evil in the east

3 February 2026 | | EYE - General
I previously related a series of diary entries from an old, unlabelled, leather-bound journal which I discovered last year whilst clearing out the departmental ophthalmic library at my hospital. I had stopped reading it from January 1909 onwards as the...

The influence of refraction correction in swept source AS-OCT measurement parameters

5 August 2026 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging
Anterior segment (AS) optical coherence tomography (OCT) is the non-invasive technique used to analyse detailed cross-sectional images of the anterior structures of the eye. Swept source (SS) OCT at 1310nm can penetrate deeply into the eye with low levels of...

Childhood glaucoma

2 October 2025 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Glaucoma
When a child is given a diagnosis of glaucoma, the impact upon that child and their family is enormous; equivalent to the diagnosis of a cancer [14]. This previously published article (2019) outlines the knowledge, techniques and approaches that offer...