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Twenty-five years in retina
In the next of our articles celebrating 25 years of Eye News, the authors look at how the retina specialty has changed over this time and ask what the future might hold. Retinal disease management has benefited from great advances...A trip up north: Eye News Symposium 2020
24 February 2020
New accents, friendly smiles and haggis served with my traditional morning breakfast, I knew at this point that I was a long way from the south of England, where this story begins.
Unlocking the power of simulation: a next generation solution to training ophthalmic professionals
30 November 2020
With experts predicting that global blindness will triple by 2050, and the number of people requiring eyecare already outpacing the number of trained ophthalmologists, eyecare training has never been more vital. Traditional in-person ophthalmic training has been curtailed by the...
Celebrating volunteer ophthalmic nurses on #InternationalNursesDay
12 May 2022
Eye News and eye care charity Orbis celebrate volunteer ophthalmic nurses who worked on the frontlines during the pandemic.
COVID-19 and Ophthalmology: RCOphth, ICEH and COECSA joint webinar
13 August 2020
| Elanor Watts, Victor Hu, Will Dean, John Buchan, John Nkurikiye, Mike Burdon, Josiah Onyango, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - General
The Royal College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (the Royal College) have had a successful VISION 2020 LINK partnership for over 12 years. The partnership was established by the VISION...
Optimising an acute eye service in the current COVID-19 crisis
5 June 2020
| Patrick Hughes, Julia Sieberer, Inderpaul S Sian
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EYE - General
With the current global pandemic of COVID-19 we have all had to redesign and reorganise our normal working practices. Non-urgent hospital work has been postponed to allow redistribution of resources, redeployment of hospital staff and to reduce the risk of...
Open source and tele-manufacturing for ophthalmology
1 August 2015
| Sheng Chiong Hong
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EYE - Imaging
Open source or crowd-sourcing and crowd-collaboration are concepts almost always associated with software and public online projects such as Wiki project. Never had I imagined that my team would apply the same principle in ophthalmology. Just less than a month...
Profile of a tertiary referral oculoplastics service in the UK
The provision of safe and effective ophthalmic care to large patient populations has always been challenging. Severe restrictions of outpatient clinical activity due to the COVID-19 crisis has compounded this problem, with 26,800 appointments cancelled in our unit in the...New study uncovers key mechanism behind a common genetic cause of age-related visual loss
19 September 2024
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Cornea / External Eye Disease
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endothelial cells, age, vision loss, research, academic, new, genetics, genome, Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy, FECD
A groundbreaking study has revealed important insights into the mechanisms behind Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy (FECD), a common cause of age-related visual loss, providing hope for future therapeutic developments, and finding implications for other neurological diseases. FECD is a common,...
Redefining healthcare through the eyes
4 February 2025
| Ashkan Eliasy
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EYE - Cornea, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
The future of healthcare is being shaped by innovation in eyecare and in particular a field known as oculomics. This discipline leverages ocular biomarkers to provide insights into various health conditions, including cardiovascular diseases and psychological or neurological disorders [1]....
Orbis celebrates International Day of Friendship
International eyecare charity Orbis recognises the importance of strong bonds on International Day of Friendship 2023.Sustainability in ophthalmology and healthcare: An overview
2 April 2025
| Pammal T Ashwin
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EYE - General
Finally, even staunch sceptics are coming around to recognising that climate change is real and that we should do something about it. But how proximal the threat is and at what pace change has to happen is not universally agreed...
