September 2021 Issue of The Ophthalmologist

Mouse vision is presumed to have low spatial resolution – but the discovery of the focea begs to differ

Episode 2: The Blind Date, in which Lenny and Lucy visit IOL Land

We have the prime gene suspects of AMD – but is a private eye needed to find the smoking gun and assign a therapeutic target?

A smartphone-based app that can screen for eye health in the absence of an ophthalmologist improves follow-up attendance at appointments

Single gene testing may not be sufficient to identify a high risk of glaucoma

This month’s image shows a metallic intraocular foreign body very close to the optic nerve – so what was the outcome?

We are so attuned to seeing and processing faces that we even see them in random objects. But do we process these in the same way as real faces?

Tina Felfeli and Yvonne Buys dispel the myths surrounding pay and practice disparity in ophthalmology and look to the future of equity in medicine

It’s important to repurpose, reuse, and recycle – and Jayakrishna Ambati has discovered that repurposing a class of HIV drugs may treat dry AMD

Hi-res imaging, full eye penetration, and no direct eye contact? This is what PARS is offering – potentially revolutionizing ophthalmic diagnostics

Experienced surgeons discuss excisional goniotomy using the Kahook Dual Blade – and make comparisons with the iStent inject

Simon Prosser aims to improve AMD patients’ quality of life by climbing the world’s highest peaks

Find out how ORBIS international is fighting against unnecessary blindness in Zambia from country director Lucia Nadaf

Sharing results from a real-world single center study of patients with diabetic macular oedema (DMO) who wore a home-use sleep mask (Noctura 400)

Sitting Down With… Judy E. Kim, Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA