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RNIB’s free online resource for pupils and teachers gets a brand-new web platform

2 December 2024 | education, school, bookshare, books, charity, Load2Learn
Thousands of children and young people across the UK with vision impairment and/or difficulty reading standard print, due to conditions like dyslexia, can now access more than a million books and images more quickly and easily after RNIB’s Bookshare service...

Blind astrophysicist inspires next generation

2 May 2025 | Haggeye, patient stories, science, TED Talk, Wanda Díaz-Merced, physics
Eilidh Morrison (23), a physics graduate from Aberdeen and Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) was starstruck last month when she met her long-time inspiration, blind astrophysicist Dr Wanda Díaz-Merced. Born with Joubert Syndrome, a rare condition that includes...

Choosing a subspecialty

1 October 2019 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
It is quite worrying how many registrars reach the final years of training without choosing a subspecialty. Sometimes this is because they love everything and cannot countenance giving any of it up, but more commonly this is due to various...

A practical guide to anisocoria

1 February 2018 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
Anisocoria means the presence of difference in the size of the right and left pupils. It is a sign of an abnormality in the efferent pathway. The first question facing the ophthalmologist is to ascertain if anisocoria is present or...

How does your practice compare?

1 April 2019 | | EYE - General
One of the lovely things about clinical meetings and conferences is the ability to meet with your peers and ask questions of them about their practice. Often the questions are not earth shattering, for example, it could be as simple...

Paraproteinaemia: a patient with atypical corneal findings

1 December 2013 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
A Bence Jones protein is a monoclonal globulin protein or immunoglobulin light chain found in the urine, with a molecular weight of 22-24 kDa [1]. Detection of Bence Jones protein may be suggestive of multiple myeloma or Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia. Multiple...

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...

A rare neonatal presentation of bilateral dacryocele and choanal atresia

27 October 2021 | | EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - General
Following a routine pregnancy, a newly delivered baby boy, born at term, was found to have increased work of breathing, stridor and a left medial canthal swelling. The baby required 100% oxygen via a face mask to maintain oxygen saturations....

Syringocystadenoma papilliferum in the right lateral canthus

2 August 2024 | | EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
Syringocystadenoma papilliferum (SP) is an exceedingly rare, benign adnexal tumour primarily affecting the skin. It is characterised by the presence of cystic structures and papillary projections. This uncommon dermatological condition is typically found in areas rich in apocrine glands, such...

Samsung focuses on the sight impaired and internet security flaws

1 June 2014 | | EYE - General
Smartphone assistive technology for the sight impaired In previous issues we’ve covered some specific smartphones that have been developed for the sight impaired. Samsung are now doing something similar, but in the form of accessories. In March 2014 they announced,...

The Duke-Elder exam: A medical student’s head start into ophthalmology

9 August 2021 | | EYE - General
The Duke-Elder exam is a specialist ophthalmology exam intended for medical students to sit during medical school. It is named after Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, a pioneering Scottish ophthalmologist who was active in the first half of the 20th Century by...

How a calcified Soemmerring ring was removed from the vitreous cavity when the cutter and forceps failed to do so

1 June 2018 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Know’st thou the land where lemon-trees do bloom,And oranges like gold in leafy gloom; A gentle wind from deep blue heaven blows, The myrtle thick, and high the laurel grows? ‘Tis there! ‘tis there, O my beloved one, I with...