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Eye surgeon gives sight to Cambodians

12 October 2022
Professor Sunil Shah has racked up his air miles in recent years. Since 2016, the Consultant Ophthalmologist at Midland Eye and the Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, has become a repeat visitor to Cambodia where he has led a series...

Manchester Royal Eye Hospital first in UK to use ultra-wide field OCT angiography machine in patient facing setting

7 December 2023 | OCT, OCT angiography, Tariq Aslam, Manchester, Eye Hospital, Purchasing, retina
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital announces it is the first in the UK to utilise the ultra-wide field OCT angiography machine, the Xephilio OCT-S1 from Canon, in a patient facing setting.

Orbis and Heidelberg Engineering team up on free e-learning opportunities

12 April 2024 | Orbis, charity, international, collaboration, partnership, educational, learning, work
Sight-saving charity Orbis and high-tech imaging and data solutions company Heidelberg Engineering are leveraging technology to provide free clinical education for eye care professionals around the world.

The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers rewards early career research

16 October 2024 | research, awards, opportunities, optometry, opticians, glaucoma, retina, AI, OCT
The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (WCSM) this week announced the winners of its annual bronze medal award competitions for vision research. Both the winning submissions demonstrated models for earlier diagnosis of significant eye disease and have the capacity to...

Implementing technology to improve global eye health

3 October 2024 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Technological innovation is providing new solutions to transform global eye health [1–5]. In particular, research towards the development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in ophthalmology has gained pace in recent years. However, there has been little research relating to its...

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...

The Qatar Fund for Development and Orbis to Launch Qatar Creating Vision in Ethiopia

8 April 2022
The Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) are providing funding to international eye care charity Orbis, to launch the Qatar Creating Vision initiative Ethiopia.

WATCH EPISODE 2: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission

20 March 2023
This Andean Medical Mission series is called Beyond 2020, and focuses on the many aspects of creating services which will ultimately impact on eliminating avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services.

WATCH EPISODE 12: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission

29 January 2025 | Andean Medical Mission, Charity, International, Working abroad, Dave Goldsmith, LMICs, Rural, South America
Welcome to the 12th episode of Beyond 2020, the video series from Andean Medical Mission | Bolivian Medical Charity that looks at strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services and shares ideas and solutions to common...

Orbis UK release 2024 highlights video

30 January 2025 | international, achievements, charity
Orbis UK have released their 2024 highlights video, revealing some of the incredible achievements their supporters helped make possible last year. The Orbis Flying Eye Hospital completed two sight-saving missions to Mongolia and Bangladesh. Orbis's clinical staff and Volunteer medical...

Biotech Healthcare transforms lives through its CSR initiative, 'I See You'

10 March 2025 | industry, refractive, Quality of life, international, myopia
Biotech Healthcare, one of the fastest growing companies in the ophthalmic industry, continues to make a meaningful impact with its transformative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, 'I See You.' This program reflects the company’s mission of ‘Access to Innovation’ by...

Ophthalmology in the developing world

1 April 2014 | | EYE - General
After the second year of medical school, I spent my summer vacation working as a volunteer for a small Italian non-government organisation (NGO), named HEALTH-AID. As part of my volunteering experience, I joined a team of European doctors, medical students...