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An advanced level of statistical knowledge is necessary to critically appraise most ophthalmology literature.

To mark World Glaucoma Week, here are some of the many creative approaches being taken to communicate awareness of the disease around the world.

The Salzburg Reading Desk is one promising approach to standardizing visual assessments for multifocal intraocular lenses.

For the sake of our patients and our profession, we need to improve upon the nineteenth-century pictograms that are currently used for visual assessment.

Mice that take exercise exhibit slower retinal degeneration than those that don’t. It could work for people too.

Our cataloging of the major eye diseases is insightful, even though impact factor analysis is flawed.

Received wisdom says that there is a critical period after birth during which the brain is wired for sight; blindness then means blindness for life

Be it battling blindness one patient at a time or changing global healthcare policies, ophthalmologists demonstrate admirable altruism.

Ranking the 100 most influential people in ophthalmology. Which clinicians and researchers have the biggest impact on our field?

The EMA approved the first gene therapy agent in 2012 – for lipoprotein lipase deficiency. Might gene therapies for ophthalmic disease reach the wards any time soon?