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Protecting and recovering from email hacking

1 February 2016 |
Over the last 12 months I have received emails from more than 20 friends and acquaintances (mostly doctors) who didn’t send those emails. More often than not I find the emails in my ‘Spam’ folder as Gmail knows they are...

One million people complete The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism e-learning

16 November 2023 | Oliver McGowan, training, disability and health, autism, healthcare, staff
Over one million people have completed The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism’s e-learning in the year since it was launched.

Money never sleeps

5 April 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich” As declared by Jordan Belfort in a motivational speech to his staff in the film Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Unfortunately, medicine as a career does not lead to...

Towards virtual reality conferences?

5 August 2020 | | Ophthalmology, COVID-19
COVID-19 is forcing us to reconsider every aspect of life. The authors ask what future ophthalmic meetings could look like. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic disrupted ophthalmic conferences resulting in the cancellation of the majority of meetings in 2020, e.g....

RCOphth 2024 Preview

17 May 2024 |
Here is our annual highlights preview of the upcoming RCOphth 2024 Annual Congress in Belfast's ICC, 20-23 May.

Cancer associated retinopathy

7 December 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Abdul Muhyemin Tarin reviews the presentation, pathophysiology and management of this paraneoplastic syndrome. Case presentation A 60-year-old hypermetropic female patient presented with several months’ history of painless blurred vision. Visual acuity (VA) was 6/24 and 6/9-1 in right and left...

The role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of DMO

1 February 2016 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) is a major cause of visual loss in diabetes, with a complex multifactorial pathogenesis. In the UK alone it is estimated that there are nearly 2.5 million diabetic patients aged over 12 years. Approximately 65,000 of...

Innovations in ophthalmology: what can the innovations of the past teach us about tomorrow?

1 June 2014 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
BUOS Prize Essay – 2nd prize winner for 2013 submissions Introduction An essay titled Innovations in Ophthalmology might choose to focus on the history; from cataract couching to femtosecond lasers, ophthalmology has had no shortage of topics worthy of discussion....

Designing ophthalmology services Part 2: How do we address the queues for a clinic?

1 April 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry
The first of this three-part series showed how systems engineering can be used to correctly diagnose and address the causes of delays in a clinic. This second article describes how to design a more productive system that meets the new...

Specialist high-street eye clinics for managing patients with retinal disorders can enhance care standards

1 December 2018 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Ophthalmology
The author examines the successful introduction of community-based retinal clinic services by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Sajjad Mahmood, Consultant Ophthalmologist, MREH, shares experience of establishing community-based medical retina clinic services. Sight loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataract,...

What's trending Jun/Jul 2021

3 June 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #blindpensioner #teachescooking #cookbook Simon Mahoney lost his eyesight to uveitic glaucoma. His wife was his main carer and did most of...

Beyond 2020 Episodes 01-03

5 June 2023 | Ophthalmology
Introduction Working in remote, Amazonian villages, the Andean Medical Mission (AMM) have made progress into eliminating avoidable blindness in this small corner of the globe and have produced a video series, Beyond 2020, to share what they’ve learned over 12...