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Belfast briefing: Retina Day roundup from the RCOphth 2024 Annual Congress

2 August 2024 | | EYE - General
Belfast hosted this year’s Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ (RCOphth) Annual Congress, a meeting dedicated to sharing advances, knowledge and clinical practice points in ophthalmic care. This article summarises selected talks by medical and surgical retina specialists during the Retina Subspecialty...

Zoom

5 June 2020 | | EYE - General
One of the side-effects of the coronavirus pandemic is that suddenly everything is now done on Zoom. In case anyone is fortunate enough to have no idea what this is, Zoom is an app that allows virtual meetings to take...

What's trending Feb/Mar 2024

2 February 2024 | | EYE - General
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #ScleralTattoo #BlackEye Scleral tattoos aren’t necessarily a new phenomenon. A quick google search will identify cases being in the news from...

Reflections as an international trainee

5 December 2025 | | EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General
I had the privilege of undertaking two glaucoma fellowships in the UK – first at the St Paul’s Eye Unit in Liverpool (2022–23), followed by a second year at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London (2023–24). Many of my seniors had...

An update on inherited retinal disorders (part 1) – overview and assessment of inherited retinal disease

1 October 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Part 2 of this topic can be found here Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) is the leading cause of blindness certification in the working age population (age 16-64 years) in England and Wales and the second most common in childhood [1]....

Management of proliferative diabetic retinopathy

1 August 2014 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Diabetic retinopathy is a major cause of blindness in the working-age population. Due to the worsening global epidemic of diabetes, the incidence of morbidity caused by the disease is set to increase [1]. The prevalence of diabetes in the UK...

Climb every mountain!

2 August 2024 |
Recently, on a weekend break away in the beautiful Cairngorms, I foolishly let it be known that I had never actually climbed a ‘Munro’, despite having moved from Northern Ireland to Scotland nearly 17 years ago! For the unaware, Munros...

Best way to detect glaucoma progression: by reflecting on the past 25 years

1 June 2018 | | EYE - Glaucoma
Glaucoma – a condition of optic neuropathy leading to progressive visual field loss often associated with raised intraocular pressure. It is fair to say that our definition for this condition has remained unchanged over the last 25 years and the...

House of cards

3 August 2023 | | EYE - General
When I was a junior doctor in the late 1990s writing my first scientific papers, once each article was finished, I had to fill out an application form, print out multiple copies and then walk to the post office at...

Cataract surgery in uveitis patients

1 February 2016 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Cataract formation is a common complication of uveitis, causing up to 40% of vision loss in these patients. Cataract results from inflammation +/- corticosteroid therapy and is usually posterior subcapsular, but a small proportion have a rapid increase in nuclear...

Addressing diabetes-related complications in Tanzania and Eswatini: A comprehensive approach to eye and foot screening

2 October 2025 | | EYE - Imaging
Diabetes is rising globally, particularly in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), where healthcare systems are under resourced [1,2]. Among its complications, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic foot disease are preventable yet frequently overlooked [3-6]. These problems often develop together due...

Here comes the fear

2 June 2025 | | EYE - General
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse” The quote above is the Fat Man’s third law from the book The House of God by Samuel Shem, previously described in the ‘Doctor by the sea’...