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Optometry Tomorrow 2026

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Amman Retina Meeting 2026

Join the world’s leading retina experts at the Amman Retina Meeting 2026 for pivotal discussions on the future of retinal care. Set in the beautiful city of Amman, this conference offers an unparalleled platform for learning, collaboration, and innovation in...

Moorfields Education: Implementing a non-medical intravitreal injection service

This is a hybrid course, which participants can attend in-person or virtually. It will feature live interactive sessions with senior executives who possess great wealth of experience in retinal care.

Scottish Glaucoma Symposium 2024

by Nivi Aravind, Y5 Medical Student, University of Edinburgh, UK. The 22nd Scottish Glaucoma Symposium enlivened the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh on 21 June in what was a delightful meeting of minds. The day’s programme was impeccably...

Moorfields Education: Dry eye course

This is targeted at clinicians working in primary or secondary care who are interested in learning more about diagnosis and treatment of conditions related to the ocular dryness and lacrimal dysregulation. This course will include tutorials for lacrimal syringing and...

Moorfields Education: A and E clinical skills lab

This half-day in-person clinical skills course will provide an opportunity for comprehensive simulated training for essential clinical skills in emergency eye care.  

My ophthalmology elective: East to West

I was fortunate to be able to complete my elective in three different parts of the world: the UK, Vietnam and Pakistan. I spent three weeks at Bristol Eye Hospital (BEH), two weeks at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi...

Oculomics and Big Data changes the game for Medical Ophthalmologists

Oculomics and Big Data changes the game for Medical Ophthalmologists, and here's why.

World-first artificial intelligence foundation model for eye care to supercharge global efforts to prevent blindness

Researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (IoO) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has the potential to not only identify sight-threatening eye diseases but also predict general health, including heart attacks, stroke and Parkinson’s disease.

LambdaVision aims to refine process for in-space manufacturing of artificial retinas through ISS National Lab-sponsored investigation

Approximately 1.5 million people worldwide are affected by retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that causes vision loss. Currently there is no cure, but researchers from LambdaVision are turning to the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to look for...

Partially sighted poet focuses on visual impairment and parenthood in new book

Glasgow-based poet Nuala Watt (39) aims to show that disabled people “have important things to say” in her latest book of poems, ‘The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish’.

“We’ve done it!”  Blind London lawyer and boss climb 24 peaks in 24 hours for charity, SeeAbility

“We’ve done it!” Blind London lawyer and his sighted boss succeed in climbing 24 peaks in 24 hours raising tens of thousands of pounds for 225-year-old disability charity SeeAbility.