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New free eye test service is open and accepting bookings
We at Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) are pleased to announce that our brand-new clinic is now open and accepting bookings for free eye tests and spectacles. We are based at the Crisis Skylight building on Canongate in Edinburgh,...What's trending Oct/Nov 2020
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #oldEnglish #herbalremedies Researchers from the University of Warwick, investigating natural remedies to treat bacterial infections, have discovered a potential new treatment....
The Ophthalmic Assistant: A Text for Allied and Associated Ophthalmic Personnel, 11th Edition
1 December 2022
| Jagruti Godhaniya
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EYE - General
The 11th edition of The Ophthalmic Assistant is a great resource for anybody working within the world of eyecare and health. The book really does cater to a wide range of people including theatre staff, ophthalmic nurses, optometrists, dispensing opticians,...
Clinical evaluation of a new pupil independent diffractive MIOL lens with a ±2.75D near addition
1 April 2016
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Diagnostic tests/Investigation, Treatment Surgery, Vision
This is a clinical outcome assessment after cataract surgery with implantation of multifocal intraocular lens implant IOL with a lower near addition (+2.75D) of 143 eyes of 85 patients aged between 40 to 83 years of age. The type of...
Secondary iris-claw anterior chamber lens implantation in patients with aphakia without capsular support
1 August 2014
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Anterior chamber, Cornea, Lens and zonules, Optics and Refraction, Treatment Surgery
This retrospective, non-randomised, non-comparative, interventional study including 128 eyes of 124 patients that presented with aphakia with no capsular support. All patients consecutively underwent Artisan iris-claw intraocular lense (IOL) implantation between 1997 and 2010. The inclusion criteria were: aphakic without...
Clinical evaluation of a multifocal aspheric diffractive intraocular lens
1 February 2014
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
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Lens and zonules, Optics and Refraction, Treatment Surgery
This is a multi-centre prospective study involving five different centres in Europe including 52 patients with cataract. The average age was 68.5±10.5 years, 35 females were bilateral implanted with aspheric diffractive multifocal lens implantation of the Tecnis 1-Piece multifocal intraocular...
Haag-Streit UK looks forward to exhibiting at the RCOphth Annual Congress 2023
28 March 2023
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Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Haag-Streit UK is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting at Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) Annual Congress on 22-25 May 2023 at the ICC in Birmingham.
Disability charity releases new film to improve eyecare for people with learning disabilities
Disability charity SeeAbility has launched a new short film for Learning Disability Week to raise awareness of how people with learning disability can get support with eyecare. The charity works to remove the barriers to eye care for people with...Clinical and management strategies in glaucoma practice: perspectives from international glaucoma specialists
1 April 2015
| Keith Barton, Winifred Nolan, Nick Strouthidis
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EYE - Glaucoma
Management options and outcomes in glaucoma practice were reviewed at the 7th Moorfields International Glaucoma Symposium, held in London on 24 January 2015. This article summarises perspectives from international glaucoma specialists on debated issues in topical therapy, glaucoma surgery, diagnostic...
Transient thickening of the macular retinal nerve fibre layer in acute optic neuritis
1 December 2022
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Optic neuritis, axonal degeneration, neurofilament protein, retina, tissue
Acute optic neuritis (ON) causes axonal degeneration, which can be quantified from the blood by neurofilament protein (Nf) levels. Within about three months, atrophy of the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) follows. However, it remains challenging to explain why there...
