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How long do you spend looking at a computer screen? I bet, if you’re honest with yourself it can easily be an hour a day. "I was only checking my emails." "Just looking something up." And this is if you don't spend your working life in front of a screen. What about a...
Diabetes Day. The importance of the Eye Examination
November 14th is World Diabetes Day. So what, you may ask. And what has this do with you and me? Well, there are 3.9 million people living with diabetes in the UK. That's more than one in 16 people in the UK who has diabetes. This means that almost everyone knows...
Could your smartphone or tablet be causing serious damage to your eyes and your health?
Isn’t it strange how things come along one after the other? I had recently read an article discussing a study in the USA all about the Blue Light Effect, and how it affected people, and then I was chatting to one of the reps that visits me, and he happened to mention...
Dementia and Eyesight
As I was driving to my Whitwick practice this morning, I was listening to a report on the radio about today being World Alzheimers day, and it got me thinking about the number of my patients that had been affected by this dreadful condition, and what that effect had...
An Exciting First Month With Our New OCT
An OCT scan is the best possible route to early diagnosis of eye health problems. It's now a month since we got this amazing instrument, and I have to say that it has exceeded all our expectations. It has proved to be very easy to use, and all our patients that have...