Subspecialties

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

What does analysis of the last five years of literature on glaucoma tell us about the priorities of the field and the major contributors to it?

Transforming complex, invasive and risky glaucoma surgery into a safe, elegant, and precise procedure.

Advances in understanding of the therapeutic mechanisms that underpin micropulse laser treatment suggest that protocols for treatment of diabetic macular edema should be integrated.

Vision training can restore some of the sight lost to glaucoma.

The new method to produce stem cells has run into difficulties in the form of image irregularities and the failure of other labs to reproduce the findings.

Previous studies linked aspirin use with age-related macular degeneration, but new data suggest otherwise: aspirin is innocent of all charges.

If you’re aged over 68 years, then statins significantly reduce your risk of developing AMD; it has no impact on younger age groups.

The finding that the core of the trabecular meshwork is an extension of Dua’s layer may have significance in understanding and treating glaucoma.

Can you envisage a future in which deploying a tiny cell-spraying device during vitreoretinal surgery reverses years of retinal cell death? Keith Martin can.