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The Second #AspireOphth Competition from Eye News
The RCOphth 2023 Congress is just around the corner and to celebrate the occasion, we’re going to run another #AspireOphth competition! We’re happy to announce that Eye News is once again teaming up with author, NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Specialist Registrar in Ophthalmology, Sohaib R. Rufai, for a two-book giveaway!Primary eyecare backs the government’s three key shifts in NHS care and calls for urgent implementation in Phase One of the 10 Year Plan
26 November 2024
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optometry, optometrist, ABDO, NHS, primary care, 10 year plan, industry news, response
ABDO, The College of Optometrists and FODO strongly back the government’s three big shifts for the NHS in England: Hospital to community Analogue to digital Sickness to prevention. These go to the heart of what primary eye care is about...
Redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic: personal accounts from four ophthalmology trainees
5 August 2020
| Nada Burgess, Mary Henry, Maria Tadros, Yu Jeat Chong
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EYE - General
We once believed that the coronavirus would not penetrate the safe confines of the United Kingdom, like so many outbreaks before this. Once the news came that this pandemic descended into our hospitals, the anxieties about redeployment began. Many of...
Blind Football Fan ‘Scores’ Support
25 January 2024
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ECLO, RNIB, sight loss, patient stories, AMD, Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
A Ross County supporter has praised the club and leading sight loss charity, RNIB Scotland, for helping him to keep attending games.
Artificial intelligence in eyecare: how do we ensure new technologies truly benefit our patients?
3 April 2023
| Fiona Buckmaster
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EYE - General
From monitoring patients with heart disease to improving the early diagnosis of cancer, artificial intelligence (AI) using deep learning techniques is already employed in many different healthcare specialties [1]. In the eyecare field, AI technologies have been used to analyse...
Intravitreal ranibizumab for the treatment of myopic CNV
1 April 2015
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The authors conducted a prospective study. Sixty-four patients (65 eyes) attended the 12-month follow-up examination. The mean patient age was 47.8 years. Fifty-five patients (86.0%) were females. All patients had pathologic myopia (a spherical equivalent of more than − 6.0...
VIBIM Study: One-year results of treatment of DME with aflibercept using TnE
5 October 2020
| Sofia Rokerya
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The VIBIM study (the treat-and-extend regimen (TER) using intravitreal aflibercept in diabetic macular edema (DME) study) was designed to evaluate the efficacy of the TER using aflibercept in the management of DME for a period of two years. The authors...
A focus on Pakistan’s growing eye care needs: over 43 million patients treated for curable blindness free of charge
5 February 2020
| Salina Zaheen, Yasmin Riaz
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EYE - General
With 90% of the world’s visually impaired living in developing countries, Pakistan is no exception to this on-going global healthcare challenge. Despite massive leaps over the last few decades in targeting this issue, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that...
External dacryocystorhinostomy in the management of childhood epiphora
Congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction is thought to be caused by a membranous obstruction at the distal end of the nasolacrimal duct (NLD). Rarely, associated midline deformities in soft tissue and bony structures of the face are present in patients with...
Management of congenital NLD obstruction
The authors evaluated changes in management of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) by surveying 1495 Association for Paediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus (AAPOS) members. The survey consisted of 21 multiple choice questions with anonymised return. Responses were received from 127 members...Glasses for the blind and a safer internet
1 April 2014
| David Haider
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EYE - General
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...
