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Features from screening programme referrals pre and post pandemic
28 February 2025
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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EYE - Paediatrics
In this study the authors conducted an analysis of demographics, referral rates and prevalence of various ophthalmic assessments among children referred to an ophthalmologist through the UCI eye mobile programme. They further evaluated the influence of socio-economic factors and the...
International medical graduates in ophthalmology
4 December 2023
| Abdelrahman Obiedat
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EYE - General
IMGs in the NHS The General Medical Council (GMC) defines an international medical graduate (IMG) as someone who has obtained their primary medical qualification outside the European Economic Area (EEA) [1], meaning that an IMG is a medical doctor whose...
Report: National Student Ophthalmology Conference 2023
11 April 2023
| Kamal El-Badawi
A report covering the NSOC23 event which took place on 25 March 2023.
National Student Ophthalmology Conference 2023
25 March 2023
by Kamal El-Badawi The days of online learning and ‘death by zoom’ have largely come to an end, with conferences transitioning back to face-to-face, allowing attendees to benefit from dynamic communication and networking. However, for students who don’t yet have...
IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’
1 April 2020
| Hannah Faal
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EYE - General
The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...
Development of paediatric ophthalmology services in Malawi: the VISION 2020 LINK between Blantyre and Glasgow
5 August 2020
| Tim Lavy, Gerald Msukwa, Jane MacKinnon, Catherine Lunduka, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
A VISION 2020 LINK was established in 2005 between the Lions Sight First Eye Hospital (LSFEH) in Blantyre, Malawi (part of the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital) with Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children to help to develop a paediatric ophthalmic service...
Ophthalmology in the developing world
1 April 2014
| Caterina Sarah Dal Col
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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...
FAQs about cerebral visual impairment (CVI): identifying and helping those affected
2 August 2022
| Gordon N Dutton
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EYE - General
Cerebral visual impairment is common in both adults and children, yet the diagnosis can easily be missed unless one is tuned into the presenting features. This article provides a succinct introduction to this important topic. What is vision? Vision is...
The International Centre for Eye Health: weaving the global threads together
4 October 2023
| Marcia Zondervan, Hannah Faal, Covadonga Bascaran
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EYE - General
The VISION 2020 LINKS & Networks Programme has been writing regular articles in Eye News about its capacity-strengthening activities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) for more than a decade. This, the first International Issue, is a landmark for Eye...
The Global Vision Database
1 December 2015
| Rupert Bourne (Prof), Tasanee Braithwaite, Alex Silvester, Aditi Das, Maria Vittoria Cicinelli
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EYE - General
The overall goal of the Global Vision Database (GVD) [1] is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment (VI) globally. It is a repository which allows us to assess the causes...
Comparison of two interferon gamma release assays (IGRA) for tuberculous uveitis
1 December 2014
| Efrosini Papagiannuli
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
In this prospective cohort study the authors compared QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube and T-SPOT.TB to evaluate their diagnostic accuracy. They enrolled 120 consecutive new uveitis presentations over a two year period in a tertiary centre. The majority were Chinese (61.3%), followed...