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The Story of Looking: Mark Cousins
Lake, Sweden, as featured in The Story Of Looking. In an interview with Director Mark Cousins about his relationship with sight and storytelling, Peter Cackett discusses Cousins’ recent film, The Story of Looking, and how its production informed, and was...175 years of Ernst Fuchs: The man behind the eponyms
14 June 2026 marked 175 years since the birth of Professor Ernst Fuchs: a teacher, writer, pathologist and one of the great founders of modern ophthalmology, whose name echoes through clinics, exams and theatres worldwide to this day. Most doctors...
Visual retraining for homonymous hemianopia following stroke
This is a clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of motion discrimination training as a potential therapy for stroke-induced hemianopic visual field defects involving 48 patients. They were randomised into two arms, one intervention (deficit-field) and one control (sighted-field). Patients were...Macular imagery: observing the visual sensations pre- and post-Jetrea injections
A 63-year-old woman, a professional painter, was diagnosed with vitreomacular traction (VMT) in 2017. She had a history of metamorphopsia, drop in visual acuity (VA) in the left eye (6/6 in the RE; 6/18 in the LE), foveal vitreomacular traction...More than 500 optometry students begin Clinical Learning in Practice roles this July
This July, The College of Optometrists will welcome more than 500 optometry students across the UK to their Clinical Learning in Practice (CLiP) roles, marking the largest intake yet into the profession’s new integrated work-based learning programme. The new cohort...Over 500 optometry students to start their CLiP placements in 2026
In 2026, the CLiP programme expands across UK universities, embedding supervised clinical training into optometry degrees. 2026 marks a significant transition in optometric education with the continued roll-out of Clinical Learning in Practice or CLiP. This is a new model...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...
Glaucoma prevalence in sleep apnoea
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a disorder characterised by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep and results from complete or partial collapse of the pharyngeal airway. This study investigated the prevalence and progression of glaucoma in 39 patients receiving treatment...
