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Heidelberg Engineering’s Tosh Vadhia announced as new ambassador for Orbis UK

Tosh Vadhia, Head of Global Accounts at Heidelberg Engineering joins blindness prevention charity Orbis to help raise awareness of avoidable sight loss. Through Tosh Vadhia’s support, Heidelberg Engineering has played a key role in supporting Orbis’s mission to end avoidable...

Introducing BEAMS: A new national society for medical retina specialists

The specialty of medical retina is evolving. Initially, limited to pattern recognition and in later times, laser treatment, the past 20 years has seen an explosion of intravitreal therapies and a very rich pipeline resulting in sight-saving outcomes and hope...

My Top Five: Ways in which LinkedIn can be useful for ophthalmologists

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social networking site, that allows over 830 million users from over 200 countries from a variety of industries to connect. As a result, it is a powerful tool used by professionals to network, collaborate,...

My top five ways in which LinkedIn can be useful for ophthalmologists

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social networking site, that allows over 830 million users from over 200 countries from a variety of industries to connect. As a result, it is a powerful tool used by professionals to network, collaborate,...

Major survey calls for new ideas on how to reinvent post diagnostic support for blind and partially sighted people

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is launching a new research study to better understand post-diagnostic support across the sight loss sector. People who have experienced being diagnosed with a sight condition know it’s not always easy to...

VISION 2020 LINKS: COECSA Fellowship examination goes from strength to strength

Eye health problems and access to diagnosis and treatment is an important issue throughout low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and particularly on the African continent, where quality of life is drastically affected by poor vision, blindness and deteriorating eye health,...

Keep calm and cut the carbon – improving sustainability in ophthalmology

As I dump my tenth pair of gloves into a non-recyclable clinical waste bin; dispose of another handful of plastic minims; or print another wad of single-sided discharge paperwork after a cataract surgery, the inconvenient truth of how these seemingly...

Retinoblastoma, CureAll and the role of global clinical, capacity strengthening and research networks

Retinoblastoma (Rb), a rare childhood eye cancer, presents a particularly compelling example of how global health partnerships can operate at the intersection of different medical disciplines, in this case: ophthalmology, oncology and public health. This article places the work of...

PREVIEW: Join us at the TROPHY Ophthalmic Conference 2025!

The highly anticipated TROPHY Ophthalmic Conference returns this year with an impressive lineup of experts, cutting-edge technological advances, and engaging discussions that promise to strengthen the field of ophthalmology. The TROPHY Ophthalmic Conference is Trent Ophthalmic Society's flagship event, provides...

Climate Change and Eye Disease: Eye Health and Blindness in a Hostile Environment

Climate Change and Eye Disease: Eye Health and Blindness in a Hostile Environment by Scott Fraser offers a thorough examination of how climate change is impacting ocular health. The book explores a variety of eye conditions that are being influenced...

Evidence shows hand-holding volunteers help significantly reduce anxiety for patients undergoing eye procedure

New evidence from an evaluation carried out by Helpforce for Friends of Moorfields shows that a volunteer’s support can help patients while they have eye surgery under local anaesthetic. 94% say the support helped them feel less anxious.

Combined versus traditional photocoagulation treatment for aggressive posterior retinopathy of prematurity (APROP)

The purpose was to report the outcomes of the combined treatment of sparing laser photocoagulation and intravitreal Bevacizumab (IVB) treatment versus conventional laser photocoagulation intervention in APROP. This was a study of 18 eyes of nine infants. One was excluded...