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Coming to terms with AI

1 August 2019 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General
A machine might be called intelligent if its response to questions could convince a person that it was human, a test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 [1]. The author considers potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) using machine learning...

Fife councillors experience street obstacles wearing sight loss simulation-spectacles

27 November 2023 | RNIB, retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract, urban, Navigation, Social Eyes
A cross-party group of Dunfermline Councillors tried to navigate around obstacles and clutter on the streets of Dunfermline on the morning of Friday, November 24th wearing spectacles that mimic different sight loss conditions.

OPO celebration event marks 100-years of groundbreaking research in vision science and optometry

22 September 2025 | optometry, meeting, anniversary, events, research
The College of Optometrists hosted academics from across the UK and internationally at a special symposium to mark 100-years of its research journal Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO) at Glasgow Caledonian University. OPO Centenary: Celebrating Research Excellence saw academics and...
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Management of diabetic macular oedema (DMO)

1 February 2018 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal | Anti-VEGF therapy, Diabetic macular edema, Steroids
The authors present guidelines on current diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the management of DMO. Fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are recommended before starting treatment to help diagnose and stage DMO, and can be repeated if there...
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Adjuvant intravitreal dexamethasone implant for persistent CME

1 October 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this retrospective, cross-sectional study the authors investigate the efficiency of intravitreal dexamethasone implants (0.7mg) for cystoid macular oedema (CME) persisting, despite immunomodulatory treatment in patients with Behcets’ disease (BD). Twenty-seven eyes of 20 patients (12 males and eight females)...
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Two-year GATHER2 data: anatomical gains, functional questions for avacincaptad pegol in geographic atrophy

5 August 2026 | | EYE - General
Geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) remains a leading cause of irreversible central vision loss, and complement dysregulation has long been implicated in its pathogenesis. In 2023, the US FDA approved the first two GA therapies, both...

New Moorfields stem cell treatment improves vision for untreatable condition

9 September 2026 | research, treatment
A new breakthrough stem cell treatment for ARK (aniridia-related keratopathy) has seen patients’ vision improve for this previously untreatable rare genetic eye condition in a first-in-human clinical trial at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, published in...

Major survey calls for new ideas on how to reinvent post diagnostic support for blind and partially sighted people

19 March 2025 | research, survey, sight loss, charity, RNIB, diagnosis, support, patient stories
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is launching a new research study to better understand post-diagnostic support across the sight loss sector. People who have experienced being diagnosed with a sight condition know it’s not always easy to...

The results of the last survey Aug 2019

1 October 2019 | | 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 Oct20

5 October 2020 | | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
The point of this series is to find variations in practice and to raise them to you, the readership, so you can review and reflect upon them. I am aware there is not always a ‘correct’ way of doing things,...

The results of the last survey Apr22

5 April 2022 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
The answer to the first question was interesting in that it seems an increasing number of units are doing same-sitting bilateral cataract surgery. It is becoming accepted practice and mainstream. Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS) involves performing phacoemulsification with...

The results of the last survey Dec22

1 December 2022 | | EYE - General
I am regularly faced with litigation whereby the claimant’s cornea has decompensated after cataract surgery. The procedure may have been complicated but sometimes it is not. The eye may have been high risk, for example, a shallow anterior chamber with...