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Clear sight is ‘revelation’ for Yaxley resident following ‘life-changing’ surgery

9 December 2022

Retiree Steve Low has rekindled his love for photography.

Friends of Moorfields shortlisted for the Charity Awards 2025

16 May 2025 | charity, awards, achievements, news, Friends of Moorfields, handholding, shortlist

We are delighted to announce that we have made the shortlist for this year’s Charity Awards, the longest-running awards scheme in the charity sector. Friends of Moorfields has been shortlisted in the Healthcare and Medical Research category for our handholding...

An environmentally friendly eye service

1 August 2025 | Pammal T Ashwin | climate change, sustainability news, net zero, greenhouse gases, environment

A single cataract procedure in the UK has been estimated to have a carbon footprint equivalent to driving a typical non-electric car for 310 miles. Surprisingly, very few centres around the world have worked out the environmental cost of cataract...

The results of the last survey Aug 2019

1 October 2019 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

Thank you once again for participating in the survey. Some fascinating results once again. Almost one in five of us do not cancel cataract surgery on the day if the blood pressure (BP) is high, which I am surprised about....

The results of the last survey Apr21

6 April 2021 | Amar Alwitry | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

There was a really fascinating response to the last edition’s practice variance survey. Strictly speaking, I cheated and this was not really about practice variation, but more about your impressions about what represents negligent practice. For the first time ever,...

CALL TO ACTION: Help the Ridley Eye Foundation ‘reach more of the unreachable’ in the Himalayas

4 October 2023 | Alistair Wood

On the 29 November 1949, Harold Ridley carried out the first implant of an intraocular lens (IoL). This was the first major breakthrough in the cure of cataract blindness since Jacques Daviel conducted the first extra-capsular extraction 198 years earlier....

The writer: publishing my first book as a trainee

1 November 2014 | Sam Evans | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

Medicine is very hierarchical. Indeed, Hippocrates himself laid the foundation of the apprenticeship that is medical training and while it is the noble duty of the boss to pass on information and ask for tasks to be undertaken as a...

Ground-breaking achievements in blindness prevention

1 October 2019 | EYE - General

One small UK based charity is enabling pioneering research to prevent blindness in low and lower middle income countries. The British Council for Prevention of Blindness (BCPB), established in 1976, funds innovative research and training which seeds the development of...

In conversation with Christopher Liu OBE

1 June 2018 | Christopher Liu (Prof) | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Eye News caught up with Christopher Liu following his recent appointment by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for Services to Ophthalmology. Christopher Liu OBE. Congratulations on your recent...

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