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The power of the full blood count

1 October 2021 | Vishal Shah | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Vishal Shah walks us through his thought process whilst highlighting the importance of routine investigations when dealing with unusual retinovascular presentations. Retinal changes can arise in anaemia, leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic syndrome. They are often the first manifestation of...

Long-term effect of gene therapy on Leber’s congenital amaurosis

1 October 2015 | Jonathan CP Roos | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

After reporting the first successful gene therapy results for RPE65 deficiency in three patients in a brief report in 2008, the same team from London now report the results of 12 patients followed up for three years after transfection. As...

Land Ahoy! An interview with Geoff Hilton-Barber

3 April 2026 | Peter Cackett | EYE - General

It was during a previous interview with Miles Hilton-Barber [1] that I discovered that his older brother, Geoff, had been an inspiration to him. He informed me that Geoff was also blind from retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and had built his...

Eyes on the road – visual standards for car drivers

1 June 2019 | Janet Pooley | EYE - General

The author examines the current visual standards required by drivers and asks whether more needs to be done to make roads safer. Are the public adequately protected by the current system of visual standards required by drivers? In a survey...

The extended role of the specialist ophthalmic photographer

2 August 2022 | Kayleigh Parker | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General

The prevalence of certain retinal conditions such as diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is projected to grow substantially over the next decades. Estimates for the projected growth in burden on eye services for diabetic retinopathy and neovascular ARMD...

Motability Foundation and RNIB to explore how journeys can be improved for people with sight loss

7 November 2024 | Royal National Institute of Blind People, industry, charity, patient experience, blindness, partnership

A new innovation partnership between the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and the Motability Foundation will explore innovative ways of making journeys better for people with sight loss. The three-year partnership will see both organisations share their expertise...

The green grass of denial

3 April 2026 | David Lockington

Tourists often state with great jealousy how wonderfully green Ireland looks from the air. This wonder often fades when they land and realise just how much it must rain to achieve such vibrant colours! I experienced the reverse of this...

Traumatic optic neuropathy

1 October 2021 | Ali Yagan | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General

In neuro-ophthalmology we get asked a lot about management of patients who suffered significant trauma and presented with loss of vision secondary to presumed traumatic optic neuropathy (TON). TON happens usually in the context of significant craniofacial trauma. The incidence...

Blame the lens – not its position – in refractive surprise

3 February 2023 | Josephine A Bates, Simon N Madge | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General

Aetiology of postoperative refractive surprise Weber coined the term “wrong eye, wrong intraocular lens, wrong patient” in 2008 as an aide memoir of major factors believed to underlie refractive surprise – defined as a significant unintended difference between dioptric refraction...

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