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Practitioners will no doubt be aware of the horrific story in the Sun of Jacqueline Stone who lost an eye following contact lens wear. It is aways going to be difficult to prove decisively what the cause of the infection was, indeed all reports point out that she used the lenses in a proper way. However Stone is [...]

What is going on with an optical show in London? This issue manages to split those in optics more than virtually any other issue but it is an issue that needs to be addressed. The now defunct Eye Show had its supporters and clearly captured the imagination of those who wanted to see an expo [...]

In these post-Leveson days it is harder than ever for the press to do the right thing it seems. As Johnny Cash almost said,  I try and walk the line. Optician is routinely accused of favouring the multiples over the independents or favouring the independents over the multiples. The internet feels it is being ignored [...]

I am a massive fan of communication  — as  I’m a magazine editor that’s hardly a surprise. However there are  a few things that I feel the need to dwell on when that communication isn’t flowing as freely as I think it should. Over the last few years there has been an increase in the number of [...]

So farewell then to the traditional light bulb. What would Eddison say to the phasing out of artificial light so warm it burns like the setting sun. The EU has decided that rather than a clear evacuated bulb with a filiment of tungsten a dingy, Mercury encrusted spiral sat on an electronic ballast is less impactful to the [...]

Ask not what National Eye Week can do for you but what you can do for National Eye Week.  Apologies to John F Kennedy but I wanted to make a point about people’s attitude towards optics. There is yet another round of breast beating going on in the profession about how optics is seen by [...]

What do you think would be the best protection from a rampaging 400lb silverback gorilla? A pair of cardboard glasses with averted eyes printed on them its seems. Yes, how funny. This is the idea dreamt up following the attack at Rotterdam zoo by Bokito. The idea is that you are not looking into the animal’s [...]

Red tape in the NHS has always infuriated me. At the rsik of sounding like Mr Angry of Purley I had to share the press release below. It’s noyt the idea of awarding prizes to people in the NHS as such. Althoiugh curing the sick might be a better use of their time. It the [...]

What proportion of online CL buyers provide prescription details? I was recently sent an email by the online contact lens supplier Get Lenses. Nothing unusual in that, I get emails all the time from many suppliers. However rather than price or lens type being the main message the opening gambit this time was that two thirds of [...]