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Kids and contact lenses: A life-changing case study

Kevin Blake, Shamina Asif and Wasim Sarwar explore best practice for fitting children with contact lenses, from the initial consultation, through to aftercare and follow up, covering professional stan...


Depression, anxiety and the optical workplace: Protecting well-being in the face of pressure

In this timely and topical article Sheena Tanna-Shah explores mental health issues commonly affecting UK optometrists and dispensing opticians...


Fundamentals of binocular vision: Health and safety in optical practice

Professor Charlotte Codina explores the fundamentals of binocular single vision through the lens of the three grades originally proposed by Claud Worth, and those tests that investigate simultaneous p...


Environmental factors and eye health: A modern day ocular problem?

Dr Sunni Patel explores the influence of environmental factors on eye health...


BCLA CLEAR Presbyopia 8: Management with corneal techniques

Dr Neema Ghorbani-Mojarrad and Professor Jennifer P Craig provide an overview of the corneal management approaches for presbyopia. The last article in a series that captures the clinically relevant co...


The ocular signs of neurofibromatosis 1

Optometrist Monica Singh, a volunteer at the Childhood Tumour Trust, outlines the importance of recognising the ocular signs of the rare genetic condition neurofibromatosis 1...

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