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South-South collaboration for the treatment of avoidable blindness in Botswana

1 October 2017 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
This article describes the value of South-South collaboration in the reduction of avoidable blindness. Specifically it describes a South-South collaboration between India and Botswana that evolved out of the VISION 2020 LINK between Cambridge University Hospitals, two institutions in India...

Building leaders for eye care in Africa: the COECSA-RCOphth VISION 2020 LINK

1 April 2015 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
The VISION 2020 LINK [1] between the College of Ophthalmology of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COECSA) and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has been building leaders of eye care in Africa since 2008, when a Memorandum of Understanding...

Optical practices to stop providing routine sight tests

24 March 2020
The following is a joint statement from the Optometric Fees Negotiating Committee (OFNC), Optometry Scotland, Optometry Wales and Optometry Northern Ireland.

Part 1: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh Visits Ethiopia with Orbis

13 October 2023 | Ethiopia, Orbis, HRH, Charity, Highness, Duchess, IAPB
Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh, visited services protecting the vision of children and adults in Hawassa, Ethiopia, with international eyecare charity Orbis.

New study maps priorities for UK eyecare research

4 June 2024 | glaucoma, AMD, dry, wet, new study, research, updates, UK, eyecare
Glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, childhood vision loss, and short-sightedness are highlighted as target study areas.

HASA OPTIX Certifies as a B Corporation

18 December 2024 | Company Profiles
Premium recyclable ophthalmic instrument company HASA OPTIX announces its certification as a B Corporation (B Corp) company. In a press release, the Brussels-based scale-up confirmed its score of 109.7 points on the B Impact Assessment, in which nonprofit B Lab...

Progressive myelination of the retinal nerve fibre layer: Acquired or incidental?

4 August 2025 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics
*Co-first authors.Myelinated retinal nerve fibres are retinal nerve fibres encased by a myelin sheath, located anterior to the lamina cribrosa [1]. First described by Virchow in 1856, a myelinated retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) appears as a whitish, feathery patch...

A focus on Pakistan’s growing eye care needs: over 43 million patients treated for curable blindness free of charge

5 February 2020 | | EYE - General
With 90% of the world’s visually impaired living in developing countries, Pakistan is no exception to this on-going global healthcare challenge. Despite massive leaps over the last few decades in targeting this issue, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that...

Javier Bardem 'donates' his iris to the Eyes of the World Foundation to fight avoidable blindness

21 September 2022
The Eyes of the World Foundation has launched 'Iris of the World' to raise awareness of the deficiencies in eye care in the most vulnerable areas of the world, and to defend the universal right to vision.

Partially sighted poet focuses on visual impairment and parenthood in new book

20 February 2024 | poetry, Scotland, RNIB, book, Nuala Watt, glasgow, art, creativiy, visual impairment
Glasgow-based poet Nuala Watt (39) aims to show that disabled people “have important things to say” in her latest book of poems, ‘The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish’.

RNIB’s free online resource for pupils and teachers gets a brand-new web platform

2 December 2024 | education, school, bookshare, books, charity, Load2Learn
Thousands of children and young people across the UK with vision impairment and/or difficulty reading standard print, due to conditions like dyslexia, can now access more than a million books and images more quickly and easily after RNIB’s Bookshare service...

Time is vision in central retinal artery occlusion

4 August 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is a rare but devastating vascular episode that can have severe impact on vision. Treatment is very time-limited and needs to be initiated very quickly to salvage any vision. The majority of patients present to...