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OIA (Ophthalmic Imaging Association) Conference 2024

22 November 2024 -23 November 2024
The Ophthalmic Imaging Association (OIA) is excited to announce that this year's annual conference will be held on the 22 - 23 November at Eastwood Hall in Nottingham. Registration is now open and can be completed at https://eyeimaging.org/conference-2024. We encourage...

Simple approach to prevent capsule tear-out during capsulorhexis creation in hyper mature cataracts

1 December 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Puncturing the anterior capsule in the anterior chamber so that the pressure falls below intracapsular tension causes the rhexis to extend out to the equator. If this develops into a tear that wraps around the entire lens it is called...

Lord Trees and Baroness Sugg call to end Neglected Tropical Diseases with charity coalition at Westminster event

9 June 2022
UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases works alongside co-host parliamentary reception in the House of Lords.

AI predicts eye damage from autoimmune drug, years before symptoms appear

1 September 2025 | artificial intelligence, hydroxychloroquine, pharmacology, research, Moorfields
A novel AI tool could transform screening for patients taking hydroxychloroquine by spotting early signs of eye damage, according to a study published in Opthalmology Retina. Researchers have devised an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can detect and predict serious...

The eye without tears

1 June 2016 | | EYE - General
The Art is long and Life is short. So goes the dispiriting tag in Latin and flung from day one and at regular intervals thereafter at idle medical students who, inevitably brainwashed, come by graduation to believe that the only...

Eyecare challenges in the Middle East: Priorities of a global ophthalmology task force

2 June 2025 | | EYE - General
Global ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving, multidisciplinary field that integrates clinical practice, research, and policy at national and international levels. One of its main objectives is to improve eyecare equity worldwide by preventing avoidable vision impairment. Since the launch of...

Fight for Sight to maximise impact by funding solutions-focused research in priority eye conditions

1 August 2018 | | EYE - General
Fight for Sight aims to stop sight loss by funding pioneering research. Rod McNeil takes a look at the Primer Fellowship Awards programme, which provides funding for up to £60,000 for individuals to undertake vision-related research for one year. Among...

College announces official partners for Optometry Tomorrow 2026

28 October 2025 | The College of Optometrists, Annoucement, optometry, events, education
New partnerships will further expand the flagship conference’s renowned learning programme for 2026’s delegates. The College of Optometrists has today announced that the Association of British Dispensing Opticians, Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Ophthalmologists will be its...

The final step

1 April 2017 | | 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
Not long after securing my fellowship in London I was successful at interview for a consultant post at Singleton Hospital, Swansea. The interview took place before I had actually started in London and besides the basic things that are asked...

Update on emerging therapies for age-related macular degeneration

4 December 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The 23rd European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) Congress, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, provided a timely update on anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy and emerging investigational therapies for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy Geographic atrophy...

CALL TO ACTION: Ophthalmology on Myanmar / Thailand border: do you have any redundant kit?

29 June 2023 | | EYE - General
In 1990, the late Doctor Frank Green, a consultant ophthalmologist in Aberdeen, along with Doctor Phillip Ambler, a GP with ophthalmic training, responded to an invitation to provide ophthalmic care for Karen refugees on the northern and eastern Myanmar borders....

Light in darkness – manual small incision cataract surgery in India

1 August 2017 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Cataract has been documented to be the most significant cause of bilateral blindness in India, where vision <20/200 in the better eye on presentation is defined as blindness [1,2]. Estimation of blindness in India by the World Health Organization (WHO)...