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Haag-Streit UK look forward to exhibiting at 100% Ophthalmology 2024

19 January 2024 | Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries, Company Profiles
Haag-Streit UK (HS-UK), the leading manufacturer and distributor of gold-standard diagnostic and surgical devices and instruments for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and orthoptists, is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting at 100% Ophthalmology in February 2024.

Haag-Streit UK to offer iTrack Advance ‘Meet the experts’ sessions at UKEGS 2024

19 September 2024 | Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries, Research & Development
Haag-Streit UK will be exhibiting as a gold sponsor at the United Kingdom & Eire Glaucoma Society (UKEGS) event in Southampton on the 9th and 10th October 2024, where they will be showcasing the iTrack Advance microcatheter. Delegates will have...

Haag-Streit ‘Slit Lamp Imaging Competition 2025’ opens for its seventh year

11 April 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Haag-Streit UK is excited to announce the return of the Haag-Streit annual “Slit Lamp Imaging Competition”, which in previous years has attracted over 1,000 entries from all over the world. Now in its seventh consecutive year, the international competition invites...

Managing an outreach eye service… 8000 miles away!

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
In 1997, Paul Rosen, a relatively newly appointed consultant surgeon to the Oxford Eye Hospital, was approached by Richard Davies, a GP in Stanley, Falkland Islands, to assist in the provision and management of the Falkland Islands eye surgery service....
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Detecting glaucoma with only OCT

3 April 2023 | | EYE - Glaucoma | Glaucoma, OCT, Optical coherence tomography, Retinal ganglion cell layer, Retinal nerve fiber layer
In this review article, the authors describe a probability model based upon only OCT to detect glaucoma. They explain how normal anatomical variation can lead to false positives and applying a model to account for this improves specificity. The application...

Developing community eye care: the GOS package in Scotland

1 December 2018 | | EYE - General
In the second in the series about community eye care in the home nations, Janet Pooley explains how Scotland has developed its services within GOS. The United Kingdom has devolved healthcare; the powers were transferred from Westminster to Scotland and...

Javier Bardem 'donates' his iris to the Eyes of the World Foundation to fight avoidable blindness

21 September 2022
The Eyes of the World Foundation has launched 'Iris of the World' to raise awareness of the deficiencies in eye care in the most vulnerable areas of the world, and to defend the universal right to vision.

Study flags evidence gaps in AI eye imaging devices approved for patient care

16 June 2025 | AI, Oculomics, Imaging, UCL, NIHR
Uneven evidence and poor data transparency revealed in review of AI as a medical device. A review of regulator-approved medical AI models in eye care has found that they vary widely in providing evidence for clinical performance and lacked transparency...

Do we really need the College to be Royal?

6 April 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
It is taken for granted in this country that all the best medical colleges are Royal. That they have the royal seal of approval from on high and therefore must be the best. I have been somewhat confused for a...

Management of DMO and PDR in 2019

10 October 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
An evidence-based approach to the management of diabetic macular oedema (DMO) and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) in 2019 was outlined by Sobha Sivaprasad, UK, in presentations during the Diabetic Retina scientific session September 6 2019, at the 19th European Society...

Innovations in posterior uveitis: In conversation with Dr Colin Chu

1 July 2025 | | EYE - Imaging
A research team has been awarded significant funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to develop an innovative drug-device combination that aims to revolutionise how individual immune cells are monitored and treated in patients at Moorfields...

The College of Optometrists calls for shift in detecting and managing glaucoma

8 April 2026 | optometry, public health, services
The College of Optometrists calls for shift in detecting and managing glaucoma by fully unlocking safe and effective primary care capacity Glaucoma is the second leading cause of irreversible sight loss in the UK and affects over one million people,...