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Bus drivers swap with blind passengers

18 May 2026 | patient stories
Drivers at the Xplore Dundee depot took part in a hands-on session today [Wednesday 6 May] to better understand the experiences of blind and partially sighted passengers. The company held a ‘Swap With Me’ event in which volunteers from national...

Clinical and management strategies in glaucoma practice: perspectives from international glaucoma specialists

1 April 2015 | | 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...

Recurrent unilateral preseptal cellulitis secondary to herpes simplex virus infection

3 April 2023 | | EYE - General
Introduction Periorbital (sometimes called preseptal cellulitis) is a common condition which on its own is not normally an ophthalmic or surgical emergency, however it has the potential to cause severe and serious morbidity in cases where the infection has crossed...

Twenty-five years in retina

1 February 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
In the next of our articles celebrating 25 years of Eye News, the authors look at how the retina specialty has changed over this time and ask what the future might hold. Retinal disease management has benefited from great advances...

Preview: UKEGS 2024

24 September 2024 | conferences, reports, UKEGS, glaucoma, Nishani Amerasinghe, Andrew Tatham, Gus Gazzard, Glaucoma UK, events, meetings
Pretty soon it’s going to be the 9th of October, and a quick Wikipedia search will tell you of how this day in history has seen the founding of the Kingdom of Valencia, the initial whispers of the Prague Astronomical...

‘Life-changing eye surgery helped me win at Crufts’

22 May 2023 | Cataract surgery
Dog handler who needed FOUR pairs of glasses for daily tasks fulfils childhood dream following treatment at Freedom Vision.

Fundus photography in Malawi – setting up a screening programmefor diabetic retinopathy

1 August 2016 | | 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
We present the case of a 53-year-old lady who presented to the diabetes outpatient clinic at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), Lilongwe, Malawi. She was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus six years ago, for which she takes metformin orally. She...

Strange Sequelae Succeeding ‘Surfer’s Eye’

1 February 2014 |
Ophthalmologists in the UK are relatively infrequently faced with a patient requesting surgery for a pterygium. This condition is more common where ultraviolet exposure is greater, especially if coupled with activities associated with ocular surface irritation. For this reason, a...

Preparing to start as a consultant

5 December 2025 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Glaucoma
I was just coming to the end of a fantastic glaucoma fellowship at Moorfields, during which Samad Ansari had been a colleague and friend, and soon to start as a consultant in Oxford where Rebecca Turner is Clinical Director, and...

A comparison of light sources in retinal imaging

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Before starting to talk about the light sources present in retinal imaging, it is necessary to start from the base: the light. Light is an electromagnetic wave whose smallest part is the photon (or quantum of light). A high frequency...

Obituary: a heartfelt goodbye to Roger Pope

3 May 2024 | optician, optometry, obituraries, Roger Pope, obituary
One of the most admired of UK opticians, Roger Pope, holder of two Royal Warrants, has sadly passed away leaving a legacy as the greatest colleague and friend to the optical community.

In conversation with Christopher Liu OBE

1 June 2018 | | 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...