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Touching base with Peter Holland, CEO of the IAPB

12 November 2024 | IAPB, charity, love your eyes, glasses of the future, interview, in conversation
For the upcoming Eye News Dec/Jan 2025, our co-editor, David Lockington, had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO of IAPB, Peter Holland. We’re really excited to share this interview with you, which delves into Peter’s fascinating career and...

LSHTM: Epidemiological Methods Applied to Eye Diseases

31 October 2024 -21 November 2024
This course takes place in October/November each year on Thursdays and Fridays over 3 weeks (5 full teaching days and one day for the written assessment). Morning is face-to-face teaching from 9:30 - 12:45 and the afternoon is self-directed learning...
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A Case-Based Guide to Eye Pain: Perspectives from Ophthalmology and Neurology

1 October 2018 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - General
A refreshing, systematic approach to eye pain, arguably one of the most commonly presenting symptoms and one that can be fraught with diagnostic challenges and management dilemmas for the busy clinician. There is a scarcity of books covering this particular...
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Improving reading of fundus photographs in an emergency setting

1 June 2019 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology | Fundus photography, telemedicine, training
The first phases of the FOTO-ED study found that emergency providers perform significantly better with fundus photography than with direct ophthalmoscopy in the detection of fundus abnormalities. The authors hypothesised that by providing additional training to emergency providers, this would...

At least 70 percent of cataract patients could benefit from toric IOL

20 March 2026 | research, Events, clinical practice
More than two-thirds of cataract patients could benefit from toric intraocular lenses (IOL), according to findings presented at 100% Optical. Consultant ophthalmologist Nigel Kirkpatrick set out how astigmatism is a significant issue for cataract surgery patients during a main stage...

OrCam MyEye – innovative sight assistance (Part 1)

3 June 2021 | | EYE - General
For Jun/Jul 20201 and Aug/Sep 2021 we have a two-part review (see Part 2 here) of an innovative piece of sight impairment technology. The device is called a MyEye, made by OrCam. I was given the opportunity to use the...

Lord Trees and Baroness Sugg call to end Neglected Tropical Diseases with charity coalition at Westminster event

9 June 2022
UK Coalition against Neglected Tropical Diseases works alongside co-host parliamentary reception in the House of Lords.

Non-infectious Uveitis: Well Known, Weird and Wonderful meets You, Me and the Balloons

3 August 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Installation view from Manchester International Festival 2023 exhibition Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons at Aviva Studios. Images © David Levene. On an uncharacteristically salubrious 5 July 2023, the date of the 75th Anniversary of the UK’s NHS, a...

Mike Harris, family optometrist, takes office as Master of The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers

17 October 2024 | optometry, Opticians, awards, events, conferences, industry, appointments
Optometrist Mike Harris was installed this week as Master of The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, a fitting culmination to his career supporting better vision for all. Mike qualified with The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers in the late 1970s,...

Eyes on the road – visual standards for car drivers

1 June 2019 | | EYE - General
The author examines the current visual standards required by drivers and asks whether more needs to be done to make roads safer. Are the public adequately protected by the current system of visual standards required by drivers? In a survey...

Presumed DALK stromal graft rejection following Covid-19 infection

4 December 2024 | | EYE - Cornea
Case report A 45-year-old healthy male patient with a past ocular history of keratoconus and right deep-anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK) graft performed 10 months prior, presented to our eye casualty clinic with a two-day history of right photophobia and epiphora....

Code-Free Deep Learning: a step into the future of ophthalmology

3 October 2022 | | EYE - General
A new focus has arisen within the research domain of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare called code-free deep learning (CFDL), and recent research demonstrates that ophthalmology is becoming one of the leading specialties in this field. Artificial intelligence (AI) is...