Selina Powell

Features Editor

Selina Powell is the features editor of Optometry Today (OT), where she writes in-depth features for the print journal and is responsible for the development of supplements in collaboration with commercial partners. Selina also covers eye health research for OT, keeping practitioners up to date with the latest developments through the Science & vision section of the website and the clinical round-up in print. She talks to optometrists about their pursuits outside of the testing room for OT’s regular Secret life article, while her My vision feature showcases the experiences of people with conditions that affect their sight.

Selina worked as a journalist for weekly and daily newspapers in New Zealand before moving to the UK in 2016.

More articles by Selina Powell

Australian woman with Vitamin A deficiency suffers fungal keratitis

BMJ Case Reports authors have described their treatment of a patient who suffered vision loss after becoming malnourished
- Research
Health Cornea Treatment
Meet the researcher: Alison Ng on fatty acids and dry eye

OT finds out about a study exploring the effects of supplementation with omega 3 and omega 6 on dry eye disease
- Research
Dry eye Treatment
NI Commissioner for Older People intervenes in case challenging lengthy hospital waiting lists

May Kitchen, 77, resorted to paying for private cataract surgery after she was advised that she would have to wait up to four years for funded treatment
- Health services
NHS Cataracts Treatment Government Coronavirus
NHS commissioners encouraged to make use of primary care

MECS, CUES, PEARS, cataract and glaucoma pathways are among services that new guidance encourages commissioners to utilise
- Health services
NHS Government Extended services Primary care
Study finds link between eating disorders and eye disease in people with diabetes

Research by Anglia Ruskin University has found an association between eating disorders and the chance of developing diabetic retinopathy
- Research
Diabetes Health Retina
GOS sight test fee to increase by 2%

The sight test fee, CET allowances and pre-registration supervision grants will all increase by 2% from April 2022
- Health services
- 1
NHS OFNC GOS
Optical sector steps up to help Ukrainian refugees

Polish members of the European Council of Optometry and Optics are offering free eye care to people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine
- Charity
Spectacles
A snapshot of UK hospital optometry

A new study has examined the scope of practice of optometrists working within the hospital eye service
- Health services
NHS Hospital optometrists
Exploring the effects of multifocal contact lenses in hyperopes

UK researchers have examined the potential of contact lenses to accelerate axial growth in farsighted children
- Research
Children
A genetic key to preventing vision loss?

Trinity College Dublin scientists have discovered a gene that could be targeted in treatments for sight loss
- Research
Treatment Blind Genetics

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