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Cast your mind back 15 years, when our mobile phones were used only to make calls and send messages. No emails, no internet, not even a camera. Advances in technology affect every aspect of our life a...

Published: 03 Mar 2019

This article outlines the approaches that practitioners should consider when delivering difficult news to patients about their clinical prognosis

Closed: 22 Feb 2019

This article describes how binocular vision assessment is relevant to identifying children at risk of developing myopia and managing progressing myopes in both spectacle and contact lens corrections

Closed: 22 Feb 2019

This article analyses some of the problems related to anisometropic prescriptions from a dispensing perspective and discusses potential single vision and multifocal solutions

Closed: 22 Feb 2019

This VRICS article presents a range of optic nerve pathologies. Practitioners should use their clinical expertise and access additional resources where necessary to complete the questions

Closed: 22 Feb 2019

This article will discuss the growing incidence of young people with type 2 diabetes and outlines the impact this can have on eye health and management

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This CET Video lecture introduces the basics of brain imaging – MRI and CT scanning. Vision and visual-motor problems are commonly caused by neurological disease. Filmed at the London Therapeutics Co...

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This VRICS article will discuss four cases of disorders that primarily affect or originate from the vitreomacular interface

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This article outlines the development of contact lens materials and the impact of this upon lens performance

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This article investigates what the ideal contact lens record could look like and whether practitioners have a consistent approach to record keeping

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This article outlines the process and benefits of registering patients with sight impairment

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

There is strong scientific interest in understanding factors leading to myopia development and progression, and options for myopia control. In this article, scientific evidence will be combined with...

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This article presents a series of cases to illustrate various approaches for managing the challenges of paediatric dispensing

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This article explores the decisions that we make as clinicians. It explains the important distinction between technicians who collect information and clinicians who act on information and take respo...

Closed: 26 Dec 2018

This video lecture gives a thorough overview of ocular allergic disease, from epidemiology to patient management. We will explore diagnostic procedures and treatment guidance, enabling practitioners ...

Closed: 26 Dec 2018