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AOP urges drivers to see an optometrist about vision concerns

26 May 2020
The Association of Optometrists has reminded motorists to contact their optometrist if they have concerns about their vision.

Glaucoma UK’s Road Safety Week campaign encourages people to keep their vision road-ready

23 November 2023 | Glaucoma, Road Safety Week, charity, vision, eye tests, Joanne Creighton
Road Safety Week will run from 19-25 November 2023 and Glaucoma UK, a registered charity that provides support for everyone living with glaucoma is encouraging people to keep their vision road-ready.

Cataract surgery training in the independent sector

3 June 2024 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
I am now most of the way through my ST3 year working in Plymouth, within the Peninsula Deanery. Before the start of the year, I was approached by one of my consultants who asked if I would like to carry...

What's trending Aug/Sept 2019

1 August 2019 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - General
#puppydogeyes Who can resist a pair of puppy dog eyes? It may be that no human can! A team of researchers discovered that dogs acquired a new forehead muscle, which is scanty or absent in wolves. This muscle is the...

New genomic test saves Moorfields patient’s sight

6 May 2025 | news, patient stories, leptospirosis, diagnosis, rare, inflammation
Moorfields patient Ellie Irwin’s stubborn and debilitating eye inflammation was successfully treated as a result of a new metagenomic service identifying the cause of this as a rare infection. In 2019, Ellie first got symptoms of uveitis, a condition characterised...

Glaucoma UK’s World Glaucoma Week campaign encourages people to make eye health a conversation

10 March 2025 | World Glaucoma Week, public awareness, conversation, eye health
As part of this year’s World Glaucoma Week, Glaucoma UK is encouraging people to make eye health part of their conversations – whether by booking an eye test, raising awareness, or learning more about glaucoma. World Glaucoma Week (WGW) is...
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15 prism test for anisometropic amblyopia

1 June 2018 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
The authors aimed to investigate the accuracy of the 15^ base in prism test (BIPT) in detecting amblyopia in anisometropic patients. This was a retrospective study in which the 15^BI was placed before the right eye followed by the left...

Matt Stringer, RNIB’s Chief Executive Officer commented on the fifth anniversary of start of the Covid-19 pandemic

13 March 2025
The UK was woefully ill-prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, and indeed any type of pandemic, with regards to the rights and needs of blind and partially sighted people. This anniversary still demonstrates that critical lessons need to be learned to...

Matt Stringer, RNIB’s Chief Executive Officer commented on the fifth anniversary of start of the Covid-19 pandemic (1)

25 March 2025 | RNIB, Covid-19, pandemic, patient stories, government, CTA, call to action
“The UK was woefully ill-prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, and indeed any type of pandemic, with regards to the rights and needs of blind and partially sighted people. This anniversary still demonstrates that critical lessons need to be learned to...

AI breakthrough in detecting leading cause of childhood blindness

3 May 2023 | AI, blindness, Children
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool could be an effective way of identifying retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), the leading cause of childhood blindness in middle-income countries, finds a new study led by UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital researchers.

Biomarkers reveal how patients with glaucoma may respond to treatment

25 July 2024 | glaucoma, biomarkers, UCL, research, treatment, Diagnosis
Markers in the blood that predict whether glaucoma patients are at higher risk of continued loss of vision following conventional treatment have been identified by researchers at UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital.

What's trending Apr/May 2019

1 April 2019 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #JessicaStarr #suicide This Detroit meteorologist committed suicide in December 2018 following SMILE corrective laser refractive surgery back in October 2018. Small...