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In the eye of the beholder!

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
Humans grow up with a vibrant sense of knowledge from the colours, shapes, and sizes we are in contact with from all around us. These come together to form some wonderful objects and designs. We are in awe of nature...

New NHS study highlights ways to help patients with painful, slow-healing corneal wounds recover sooner

20 July 2026 | research
Teams at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (QVH) and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) have published new findings highlighting how long and demanding treatment can be for people with persistent corneal epithelial defects and how a clinic-based...

ABDO publishes special centenary supplement celebrating 100 years of the dispensing optics profession

10 September 2026 | optometry, historical
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has published a special commemorative supplement marking 100 years of the dispensing optics profession, as part of its year-long centenary celebrations. Included with the September issue of Dispensing Optics journal, the souvenir publication...

The results of the last survey Jun25

2 June 2025 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea
The first question refers to whether we check blood glucose levels prior to cataract surgery. Almost three quarters of you do which was interesting. We know that poor glycaemic control (manifesting as a raised HbA1c) has implications for wound healing...

Presentation feedback tools

4 October 2023 | | EYE - General
The topic of this issue stems from a desire to find the best free-to-use tool for collecting feedback after a presentation. It is a common requirement for clinicians to collect audience feedback after a teaching session. This feedback contributes toward...

My ophthalmic elective: Harvard Medical School

10 December 2021 | | EYE - General
Medical electives are an excellent opportunity to learn, enjoy and explore countries and their healthcare systems. I was grateful to do mine in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). This article will share my personal experience working at HMS with...

The symbolism of eyes in Halloween traditions and popular culture

31 October 2025 | | EYE - General
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,...

Albinism: Celebrating international awareness, advocacy and clinical insights

3 June 2026 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics
Albinism is a group of inherited genetic disorders which occurs worldwide, regardless of ethnicity or gender, and that affects melanin production in the hair, skin and eyes. Prevalence varies globally, ranging from approximately 1 in 20,000 individuals in Europe and...

#KnowYourDrops: breaking down barriers to poor compliance

1 June 2017 | | EYE - Glaucoma
Award-winning* #KnowYourDrops eye drop compliance campaign helps patients for World Glaucoma Week to achieve medicines optimisation in ophthalmology. The #KnowYourDrops campaign is fast becoming an internationally recognised model to help support healthcare professionals, with the provision of better tailored ophthalmic...

Traumatic injuries from foam Nerf bullets

5 June 2023 | | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus
Background Three patients are presented in this case report: an adult and two children which were subjected to ocular injuries from Nerf gun bullets. Generally, Nerf guns are considered safer than airsoft guns. While there are many papers on airsoft...

Aspiration of anteriorly migrated dexamethasone implant using an 18G intravenous cannula

4 December 2025 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Intravitreal dexamethasone (Ozurdex 0.7mg) is a biodegradable, sustained-release implant used to manage diabetic macular oedema, macular oedema secondary to retinal vein occlusion, and non-infectious posterior uveitis due to its anti-inflammatory effects and VEGF suppression [1]. While effective, the implant may...

Traumatic optic neuropathy

1 October 2021 | | EYE - Orbit, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
In neuro-ophthalmology we get asked a lot about management of patients who suffered significant trauma and presented with loss of vision secondary to presumed traumatic optic neuropathy (TON). TON happens usually in the context of significant craniofacial trauma. The incidence...