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Smart speakers: for patients and practitioners

1 August 2018 | | EYE - General
Many readers will have experience of using smart speakers, such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Home. These popular devices are inexpensive and powerful. In brief, smart speakers listen for a spoken trigger word, followed by verbal commands. Commands...

On the wrong track

1 June 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
A 65-year-old very high myope lady presented with sudden blurred vision down to count fingers to her right eye after a short and sharp pain. She also described seeing a black swirly line and as all these symptoms were exactly...

The COVID-19 ‘frontlines’: a foundation doctor’s perspective

20 April 2020 | | EYE - General
Staring through the fragmented stained glass of the Virgin Mary and her assorted angels, I reflected on the strangeness of the workplace I now found myself working in and the irony of a workforce now working together more enthusiastically than...

The All Eyes Foundation

3 April 2024 | | EYE - General
At its core, All Eyes Foundation (AEF) wishes to help bring vision back to Iraq, and it intends to do this through ophthalmic subspecialty training, mentoring and infrastructure development. Based in Najaf, just over 100 miles south of Baghdad, the...

MOSUK Annual Meeting 2026

25 February 2026
Medical Ophthalmological Society's 27th Annual Meeting

Redefining the future of sight - Moorfields Eye Charity launches first major national funding initiative

29 July 2026 | research, treatment, charity
New grants strategy aims to enable innovation at scale and transform eye health. Moorfields Eye Charity has launched a significant national funding initiative to accelerate the urgent development of new eye health treatments and interventions. The new Discovery and Translation...

Preview: UKEGS 2024

24 September 2024 | conferences, reports, UKEGS, glaucoma, Nishani Amerasinghe, Andrew Tatham, Gus Gazzard, Glaucoma UK, events, meetings
Pretty soon it’s going to be the 9th of October, and a quick Wikipedia search will tell you of how this day in history has seen the founding of the Kingdom of Valencia, the initial whispers of the Prague Astronomical...

The 2021-2022 ophthalmology ST1 application process

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
Harry Rosen updates us on what is involved in the current UK Ophthalmology Specialist Training (OST) programme application process. The process of applying to the UK Ophthalmology Specialist Training (OST) programme is constantly changing each year, adapting to the needs...

Audiology and ophthalmology: A comparative perspective on diagnostics and patient care

4 December 2024 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
I’m here with Chris Gordon and Anthony Vukic from Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to find out how two professions that may appear unrelated on the surface actually have a lot in common. Some of this article might surprise you....

See sweet to C-suite: Carrie MacEwen

2 April 2025 | | EYE - General
The business world tells us, “Know your why.” But increasingly, we live in a society where people think, “Why bother?” In this interview, David wants to know what makes Carrie MacEwen tick, and why she bothered to get involved locally,...

Patient and public participation shapes biomedical research and access priorities in eye health

1 December 2014 | | EYE - General
Patients, clinicians and clinician-scientists play a valuable role in shaping the future of vision research. Limited funding demands targeted research initiatives that ultimately will shape health policy and practice to secure progress in improving patient outcomes in eye health. This...

Dropless cataract surgery

3 June 2026 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea
Dropless cataract surgery (DCS) describes the complete provision of anti-inflammatory and antibiotic prophylaxis intraoperatively. This eliminates the need for postoperative eyedrops to be self-administered by the patient and thus is also known as ‘dropless after cataract surgery’ (DACS) (n.b. this...