Examining the LEAD trial
The LEAD study or Laser Intervention in early stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) trial was a world-first study into the safety and efficacy...
Getting to grips with RPD and AMD
Late last year a world-leading study was launched concentrating specifically on reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) and why they appear to be a high-risk phenotype...
CASE STUDY: Glaucoma masqueraders
Glaucoma masqueraders (Table 1) are ocular conditions that have clinical features that resemble glaucoma. Like glaucoma, they are conditions that can change...
Privacy Act 2020 – are you compliant?
Privacy is difficult to define, it can mean different things to different people – a right to control information about yourself, a right to make decisions...
BOOK REVIEW: Positive Vision By Ken Brandt
Ken Brandt has had poor vision since being born prematurely, with subsequent progressive myopia resulting in a detached retina and eventually also cataracts....
Christmas parties social tedia
Whoopee, it’s party time! Some folks enjoy them, personally I don't! But it’s a giving time and one must make an effort. Having done so, I hope a few fellow...
AMD treatment controversies, corneal tumours, myopic risks and more
The post-lockdown novelty of rubbing shoulders with colleagues showed no signs of abating at Eye Surgery Associates’ postponed seminar and dinner evening...
Dry eye research - a review
High prevalence of abnormal ocular surface tests in a healthy paediatric population
Contemporary surgical managment of iris tumours and reconstruction
In the human eye, the iris forms a diaphragm controlling the diameter of the pupil and therefore the amount of light reaching the retina. The eye is diffraction-limited,...
Screening, VA and falls assessments in 2020
The Orthoptics Australia online weekend conference in mid-November was the second virtual conference I attended in 2020. Not having to fund transport and...
The fall and rise of refractive surgery
A patient with a history of refractive surgery may create a wave of anxiety in the minds of most ophthalmologists but it is the history of refractive surgery...
Tax, Covid-19 and the new Labour government
As we start to better understand the new ‘business as usual’ operating landscape and the initial urgency around business disruption dissipates, practice...
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