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Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans appoint Paul Bott as new Chair of the Board

7 June 2024 | charity, appointments, industry, Paul Bott, Sight Scotland, Veterans
Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans are delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Bott as the new Chair of the Board.

Conference Report: ARVO 2025 Annual Meeting

5 June 2025 | | Newsround, News, Report, Conferences, Events, US
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2025 Annual Meeting was held at the Salt Palace Convention Centre in Salt Lake City, US. This prestigious event brought together experts in vision and ophthalmology from around the world for...

Greater Manchester residents asked to share views on eyecare services

11 June 2025 | news, UK, patient stories, survey, eyecare services
NHS Greater Manchester is calling on residents to share their experiences of using eye care (ophthalmology) services as part of a region-wide evaluation aimed at improving care for people with eye disorders. This eight-week listening exercise, running from today, Monday,...
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Is there an association between dry eye disease and depression and anxiety?

1 April 2015 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
Dry eye disease is a widespread ocular surface condition (prevalence 5.5-33.7%) that has been previously linked to systemic diseases, such as Sjogren, rheumatoid arthritis and more recently possibly also depression, in small population-based studies. The authors’ aim was to investigate...

College of Optometrists and RCOphth form new Eye Care Interoperability Steering Group

19 March 2026 | oculomics, optometry, allied professions, services
New cross-sector Eye Care Interoperability Steering Group formed to spearhead the development and implementation of common standards for eye care images in the UK . A new Eye Care Interoperability Steering Group has been established to accelerate the adoption of...

Emerging developments in dry eye

1 August 2017 | | EYE - Cornea
An estimated 344 million people worldwide suffer from dry eye [1]. This chronic syndrome is characterised by a vicious cycle of tear film hyperosmolarity, tear instability and corneal stress, leading to increased friction, inflammation, ocular surface damage and decreased visual...

A look into the IOL space

1 October 2014 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Advances in the design and performance of intraocular lenses (IOLs) continue to be driven by demand for better outcomes, presbyopia correction and spectacle independence, alongside a better understanding of the dynamics of the crystalline lens, newer theories of accommodation and...

25 years of OCT

1 December 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
David Huang first described optical coherence tomography (OCT) in 1991, in his seminal paper on the subject in Science. This method developed the work of others on ophthalmic interferometry, which essentially showed that measuring reflected light could be used to...

Demystifying external trainee selected components and out of programme experiences

3 February 2023 | | EYE - General
If you don’t know your external TSCs from your OOPC/OOPT/OOPE/OOPR, then this article is for you. Trainee selected components (TSC) are College-approved periods of training, usually ranging from six months to a year (formally ASTO) of intensive subspecialty training in...

The treachery of images – making sense of OCT imaging

1 June 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
In 1929 Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte produced his painting La Trahison des Images. It depicted an old fashioned pipe for smoking tobacco and underneath were the words “ceci n’est pas une pipe”, this is not a pipe. You may wonder...

Myopia management

1 December 2022 | | EYE - General
With the growing prevalence of myopia at epidemic levels in some countries and increasing number of research publications on myopia control, there is a lot of controversy regarding the management of myopia. As none of them are at present available...

Nano-ophthalmology paves a new path in the future of eyecare

1 December 2022 | | EYE - General
Introduction The treatments of ocular conditions in the field of ophthalmology varies from topical to surgical procedures. The field of nanotechnology is one of the fast-growing fields of medicine, which plays an important role in turning the impossibilities of the...