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Does religious fasting affect intraocular pressure or retinal parameters?
1 December 2022
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Religious fasting, Retina, macula, optical coherence tomography angiography
Nearly one billion Muslims fast every year during the month of Ramadan. Due to the difference between the lunar and solar calendars, religious fasting time can range from 11 to 17 hours per day. This prolonged abstinence from food and...
Did the COVID-19 pandemic affect quality of life of patients newly diagnosed with intra-cranial hypertension?
3 April 2023
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
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COVID-19, Idiopathic intracranial hypertension, pandemic, quality of life
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was identified as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. This article aimed to explore how the care of patients with idiopathic intra-cranial hypertension (IIH) was affected during the COVID-19 lockdown. The...
Good news: new study links moderate wine consumption to lower risk of cataract surgery
31 March 2021
An observational study published today in Ophthalmology (the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology) indicates that low to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of requiring surgery for cataracts, although the nature of the study means it does not definitively prove a direct causal effect.
Specialty doctor interviews
1 February 2019
| Gwyn Samuel Williams
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EYE - General
I started my training as an ophthalmologist in the Wild West of Carmarthenshire where I did my first laser procedure, first phacoemulsification and first slit-lamp examination. All of these firsts were done under the tutelage of very skilled staff grade...
Orbis UK release 2024 highlights video
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...Charity work in Cambodia: Culture, cataracts, and cruelty
3 October 2024
| Bita Manzouri
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EYE - General
Cambodia has one of the lowest numbers of eye specialist doctors per capita in the world, and Bita Manzouri takes us on a journey into the charitable work of the Khmer Sight Foundation who are working to combat this. “Ut...
Leading eyecare charity Orbis celebrates the 20th anniversary of Cybersight
Orbis celebrates the 20th anniversary of its award-winning telemedicine and e-learning platform, Cybersight.Orbis Brings Sight-Saving Glaucoma Training to Rural Peru
19 July 2024
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charity, international, Orbis, Latin America, South America, Peru, rural, humanitarian
International eyecare charity Orbis has kicked off a five-day, on-site hospital training programme in Trujillo, Peru, to enhance the skills of local eyecare professionals in treating glaucoma.
Nerve head in healthy humans using OCT-angiography
1 December 2017
| Chrysostomos D Dimitriou
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EYE - Glaucoma
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) is a recent, dyeless, and noninvasive imaging technique for evaluating depth-resolved vascular status by capturing the dynamic motion of the erythrocytes. It provides the flow map of major vessels and capillary plexuses separately in different...
