Well-known US Fox News reporter Shannon Bream, a former lawyer and crowned beauty queen, battled through 18 months of excruciating pain and chronic fatigue as a result of undiagnosed recurring corneal erosions (epithelial basement membrane dystrophy).
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Ocular surface infestation with Demodex mites is recognised as a significant risk factor for the development of chronic blepharitis. Although 50% tea tree oil (Melaleuca alternifolia) is currently the
Any work will have its stressful moments, but when that stress becomes prolonged and severe the effects can be serious and wide ranging. How you deal with it, is key.
A study published in Clinical Ophthalmology suggests a single application of self-retained cryopreserved amniotic membrane (CAM) can speed corneal surface recovery and help reduce symptoms of dry eye
As debate erupted across the Tasman about whether Australia lacked ophthalmology training positions or had a regional distribution problem, Dr Michael Merriman, RANZCO’s New Zealand qualification and education committee chair, was undertaking his own research into New Zealand’s ophthalmologist needs
Much loved and celebrated tenor, Andrea Bocelli, is famously blind but perhaps less-known is that Bocelli suffered from congenital glaucoma from a very young age. Already at great risk for vision loss because of his glaucoma, the Italian opera singer went totally blind at 12 years old after sufferin
By Darin Goldman, Nadia Waheed and Jay Duker , Reviewed by Dr Narme Deva The Atlas of Retinal OCT: Optical Coherence Tomography by Darin Goldman et al is rather a nice little book. On first impressions, it is a little on the skinny side for an ophthalmology atlas, but it is jam-packed with lovely p
Tennis champion Venus Williams was diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome in 2011, causing her tennis career to almost grind to a halt. After a rough season of injuries and match withdrawals, she announced she was suffering from the autoimmune disease, telling media she’s suffered chronic depression, swe
Orbital cellulitis is an uncommon but serious ophthalmic emergency that is potentially sight threatening. In Australasia, community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) associated orbital cellulitis was first noted in Brisbane in 20091. Ophthalmic MRSA-associated infection
All myopia is associated with an increased risk of sight-threatening conditions such as retinal detachment (RD) and myopic maculopathy (MM), with the risk increasing markedly in high myopia¹.
Marty Feldman, a much-loved British comedian, perhaps best known for his role as Igor (pronounced Eye-Gor) in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974), suffered from Graves’ disease. There's a saying, "Your face is your fortune", and Feldman got a double-whammy as his nose was mangled in his youth in a
