Dr David Robert Grimes looks at the eye health issues that are making the news.
Smartphone use leads to eye stroke
Reports from China describe a young man temporarily losing his vision because he stared at his phone in the dark too much (Chen, 2019), purportedly bringing about a central retinal artery occlusion or “eye stroke”.
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The College, The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) and the Federation of Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians (FODO) back the Government’s commitment to put patients in the driving seat and give them more control and choice over their care.
One thing is certain: I wasn’t expecting the events of the last 10 weeks to take place when I wrote my last Optometry in Practice editorial in February this year.