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Digital eyecare – enabling better communication between primary and secondary care

Alexander Chiu and his co-authors highlight innovations influencing healthcare advancement and how trainees can get involved. Hospital eye services (HES) were under great pressure to meet demand, even before the COVID-19 pandemic. This pressure has increased with the cancellation and...

An Inconvenient Truth: Pete’s hidden curriculum Part 4

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” The above is a quote attributed to Mark Twain from the 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which follows Al...

The symbolism of eyes in Halloween traditions and popular culture

Halloween is a festival steeped in symbolism. Pumpkins, skeletons, ghosts and witches dominate the seasonal iconography, each representing broader cultural anxieties about death, darkness and the supernatural. Among these motifs, the eye, often depicted as glowing, disembodied or grotesquely exaggerated,...

Moorfields Education: Implementing a non-medical intravitreal injection service (Nov 23)

This course is for clinicians working in an ophthalmic or medical retina setting, focusing on the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion and diabetic oedema.  

Tricks and tips for paediatric refraction

Refraction is an important part of the paediatric eye examination but can sometimes be challenging. If a child struggles to co-operate with the eye examination, how can one ensure that the best outcome is achieved? There are tips here which...

Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Topcon Healthcare, Inc. launch Cascader Limited to advance AI-driven eyecare and Oculomics

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology (IoO), and Topcon Healthcare today announced the launch of Cascader Limited, a new medical technology company that aims to transform the detection and management of eye disease through artificial...

Incidence and risk factors of ocular hypertension following PPV and SOI

In this prospective, interventional study the authors evaluated the risk factors for elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) after pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with silicone oil injection (SOI). This study included 254 eyes of 254 patients, with a mean age of 55.33...

OSCE Fair 2024

by Ping Hei Alfie Lee, Y5 Medical Student, Newcastle University, UK. OSCE stands for Objective Structured Clinical Examination. It consists of a series of simulated scenarios evaluating student’s clinical competencies based on a set of standardised scoring rubrics. In the...

Surgical management of high myopia strabismus

This is a small case series of three patients with unilateral or bilateral high myopia with exotropia and hypotropia. Surgery involved nasal loop myopexy between the medial and superior recti muscles with or without lateral rectus recession and / or...

Traumatic ‘toy’ gun injury leading to permanent vision loss

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a progressive, inherited disorder of connective tissue that affects the skin, cardiovascular system and retina. Ocular manifestations of the disease are related to Bruch’s membrane, a thin elastic tissue layer located between the retinal pigment epithelium...

Kevin Gutsell became president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians

Kevin Gutsell FBDO (Hons) SLD became president of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) during a ceremony held on Thursday 9 May at the ABDO National Resources Centre (NRC) in Birmingham.

Screening and adherence to glaucoma care in Enugu, Nigeria

The authors present the findings of a cross-sectional survey of participants diagnosed with glaucoma during free eye screening. A total of 830 participants were screened from two outreaches:182 new glaucoma cases were diagnosed (63 glaucoma and 119 glaucoma suspects). There...