Personalised medicine part 2: Ophthalmological implications
Dr Douglas Clarkson concludes his look at the latest developments in gene intervention with a review of the latest gene and stem cell treatments for eye disease
Disease View All Disease
Detecting strabismus
Strabismus in the primary care community
South African optometrists Donovan Savage and Michele Hlava show how the Volk ...
Mao’s cataract mystery
Optical connections: Mao’s cataract mystery
Chinese icon Mao Zedong suffered eye issues later in life but the definitive ...
Inflammation in eye dis
Inflammation in common eye disease
Ross Grant discusses the role of inflammation in common eye disease and how ...
City dissertation winner: ...
City dissertation winner: Stem cells in the treatment of ocular disease
The winner of this year’s Optician/City University prize for the best ...
Macular degeneration case ...
Macular degeneration case study
Louise Stainer and Salman Mirza follow up their series on macular disease with ...
Temporal wedge visual field ...
Temporal wedge visual field defect in glaucoma
Dr Robert Harper and Sonali Patel describe a less well known field defect ...
How to treat miscros ...
How to treat miscros meibomian gland dysfunction
Meibography is a useful tool in the investigation of meibomian gland ...
Systemic disease in practice: Pontine haemorrhage and diplopia
Systemic disease in practice: ...
In the fifth in our series looking at neurological disease and its ocular impact, Kirit Patel describes a case of a pontine haemorrhage resulting in diplopia
Systemic disease: Vascular disorders with neurological consequence - part 2
Systemic disease: Vascular ...
Kirit Patel describes more cases from community practice, this time focusing on transient or sudden vision loss
Managing myopia progression
Managing myopia progression
Myopia progression was in the spotlight at the BCLA Conference
Systemic disease: Vascular disorders with neurological consequence
Systemic disease: Vascular ...
Many neurological disorders have underlying vascular complications as the cause. Here are three cases from practice which, though rare, might present in primary care practice
How smoking affects eye health
How smoking affects eye health
Rakesh Kapoor outlines the significant impact of smoking on eye health
Systemic disease: Heteronymous hemianopias
Systemic disease: ...
Kirit Patel describes bitemporal hemianopia related to pituitary problems and the much rarer condition of binasal hemianopia
Look East: Malaysian Academy seminar
Look East: Malaysian Academy ...
Monica Lau reports from the first specialty CL seminar of the Malaysian Academy of Optometry. Myopic progression was the focus
Book reviews: Statistics in Medicine; Low Vision – an inter-professional approach; Diableries
Book reviews: Statistics in ...
Bill Harvey selects an eclectic trio of books touching on aspects of optometry from this world and possibly the next
Systemic disease: Acromegaly and its diagnosis
Systemic disease: Acromegaly ...
In the second of our series looking at systemic disease presenting in community optometry practice, Kirit Patel describes the impact of an unusual hormonal imbalance
The bigger picture: Anterior eye in the wider health context
The bigger picture: Anterior ...
At a recent series of sell-out Johnson & Johnson roadshows the focus was very much upon anterior eye in the wider health context
Lower macular pigment optical density in chronic open-angle glaucoma
Lower macular pigment optical ...
Professor James Loughman explains how latest research suggests a link between macular pigment levels and glaucoma
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