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Glasses for the blind and a safer internet

Google Glass I recently attended a demo of the Google Glass technology (at the TEDx Salford conference). For those who have not come across Glass, it a wearable computer developed by Google. In essence it is a very small computer...

Falkirk girl with sight loss is World Book Day winner

Grace Kidd, 9, from Falkirk, is the winner of a creative writing competition hosted for the first time by leading sight loss charity, RNIB, to mark World Book Day.

Abducens nerve palsy following surgical correction of craniosynostosis

The authors present two cases of unilateral abducens palsy secondary to a recent trans-sutural distraction osteogenesis (TSuDO) operation for craniosynostosis. The basic principle of the TSuDO procedure is described as dissection and distraction of the prematurely fused sutures. This complication...

Age-related macular degeneration in elderly persons in Germany

The authors present the findings of a cross-sectional study in 11 seniors’ community centres. Eleven community centres were screened with a total of 281 participants. A third of participants with gradable images were in normal retinal health (32%).The most common...

How a paediatric population presented with diplopia

The authors present the results of a retrospective records review of 244 children presenting with diplopia over a three-year period. The majority of cases presented to paediatric ophthalmology clinic; other routes of presentation included eye casualty, neuro-ophthalmology or another eye...

Prevalence of anisometropia and associated factors in Iranian children

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of anisometropia and the associated demographic and biometric risk factors in children. Data were taken from the first phase of the Shahroud Schoolchildren Eye Cohort cross-sectional study. From this phase,...

The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020

Introduction The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health was published in 2021 [1]. Drawing on expertise from within and outside the eye health sector, the Commission set out to: inform governments and other stakeholders about the path forward...

Nikolaos Koutris takes on half marathon to raise awareness for Sight Scotland and high eye pressure

Nikolaos Koutris, 37, originally from Greece and now residing in Edinburgh, has been inspired to run a half marathon for Sight Scotland after being diagnosed with high eye pressure.

Shockat Adam MP pledges to focus attention on special schools eyecare service

Charity SeeAbility and Willow Dene Oakmere Road special school in Greenwich were delighted to host the first practising optometrist MP to be elected to parliament, Shockat Adam, to see the charity’s eyecare work in action. Shockat came to learn more...

Risks of advanced ROP development in unscreened babies

The authors report a retrospective study of the prevalence of infants with stage 4b and 5 retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) who were never screened and the importance of screening guidelines. The study was conducted in a tertiary eye hospital in...

Looking on the brightside: Lord David Blunkett

“I can hear people smile” As a young adult in the 1980s and 1990s I gradually became more politically informed with occasional forays into BBC’s Question Time. In doing so, I learnt of the rise of politician David Blunkett, a...

The Story of Looking: Mark Cousins

Lake, Sweden, as featured in The Story Of Looking. In an interview with Director Mark Cousins about his relationship with sight and storytelling, Peter Cackett discusses Cousins’ recent film, The Story of Looking, and how its production informed, and was...