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Moorfields Education: Refractive one-day course
This one day course is suitable for refractive young and senior ophthalmic surgeons, both internal or external staff, optometrists, and refractive allied health professionals (nurses/technicians). With lectures from world leading experts and interactive discussion, this is not to be missed.
Piloting myopic control glasses effects on axial length under mesopic conditions
This study aimed to pilot whether axial length reduces when being treated with myopia control glasses in mesopic conditions. Participants were required to have single-vision glasses with spherical equivalent between -1.00 and -5.00 dioptres, astigmatism less than -1.00 dioptre, a...
Localising the cause of bloody tears
The authors present two cases of ‘idiopathic’ bloody tearing. The paper presents the potential causes of bloody tearing, highlighting the difficulty that can be encountered in diagnosing and managing these patients. The authors use punctal plugs in these cases which...Understanding amniotic membrane grafts
Safa Elhassan gives a brief review of amniotic membrane grafts and their application in theatre and clinic-based settings. Amniotic membrane (AM) transplant has been an established adjuvant treatment for many corneal, conjunctival and scleral disorders in ophthalmic clinical practice with...Dr Glaucomflecken: Stayin’ Alive
Peter Cackett spoke to ophthalmologist and social media sensation Dr Glaucomflecken about his early days in comedy, the role satire can play in impacting medical governance, and where he might take his brand of medical comedy next. It was towards...25 years of OCT
David Huang first described optical coherence tomography (OCT) in 1991, in his seminal paper on the subject in Science. This method developed the work of others on ophthalmic interferometry, which essentially showed that measuring reflected light could be used to...Clinic invests in Hampshire people’s eyecare
Sight-saving specialist Newmedica has officially opened a multimillion-pound clinic for the people of Hampshire.Pathological myopia: a trainer’s perceptive
High myopia is defined as myopic refraction of greater than -6 dioptres with an axial length greater than 26.5mm, while pathological myopia is myopic refraction with posterior pole degeneration [1]. These degenerative changes can affect a young population and in...‘Step Up For Nystagmus’ this Nystagmus Awareness Day
Monday 20 June, the Nystagmus Network marks Nystagmus Awareness Day by asking supporters to ‘Step Up For Nystagmus’ to raise awareness of this complex visual impairment.Moorfields Eye Charity’s six-year growth and impact
Moorfields Eye Charity launches its impact report showing that it has grown to become the leading charity in the UK funding research into eye health and innovation and improvement in patient care.
Surgery for horizontal nystagmus
The authors report two consecutive interventional surgical series in which the authors describe their experience with the Sinskey anterior extirpation procedure (SAEP) and a newly modified myectomy without reattachment (MWR). In a review of 39 patients, 20 underwent the SAEP...
