by Ahmed El-Amir | Oct 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
A new guide has been launched to help GPs improve their eye care knowledge after a recent survey revealed many were not confident when diagnosing major eye diseases. More…...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Oct 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
A grandfather plunged into darkness when he lost his sight nearly thirty years ago, can now see again thanks to a bionic@nbsp;eye. More… http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2014-10-02/bionic-eye-helps-grandfather-from-fleetwood-to-see-again/
by Ahmed El-Amir | Oct 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
National Eye Health Week (NEHW) organisers are pointing to a successful awareness week where over 450 pieces of press coverage had been generated by Friday September 26, reports Optician magazine. More…...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Oct 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Macular Society is calling for sight loss warnings on cigarette packs after a poll showing that fewer than eight per cent of MPs know for sure that smoking is linked to macular degeneration, reports The Optician magazine. The charity said it was horrified by the...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Fran Fulton is 66, and she’s been blind for about 10 years. She suffers from retinitis pigmentosa – a degenerative eye disease. Her sight has been restored with the Argus II eye implant. More…...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last weekend’s Mail On Sunday had the headline: ‘Soaring rate of eye infections’ linked to cheap internet sales’. Professor John Dart of Moorfields Eye Hospital has seen a seven-fold increase in the number of Acanthamoeba Keratitis cases....
by Ahmed El-Amir | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
The internationally famous Moorfields Eye hospital in London is being forced to buy corneas from abroad because of a shortage of UK donors. According to the Evening Standard, the hospital regularly has to cancel operations because its donations — an average of one...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Three-year old Raffi Tendell from Windsor was born on 11th September 2010 in Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire. Three months after he was born he needed emergency laser surgery to save his eyesight from the threat of retinal detachment. Raffi was born four months...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
A trial to identify whether 11,000 patients who took selenium and/or vitamin E supplementation had a decreased risk of developing cataract has found no evidence to support the claim. More…...
by Ahmed El-Amir | Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Dawn Faizey-Webster has passed her degree exams in Ancient History despite having locked-in syndrome. Dawn, 42, communicated her answers by blinking....
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