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The Eye Institute–Bausch & Lomb Research Prize
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Vision Restoration Therapy: New Hope for Stroke Patients with Visual Field Loss
Patients suffering from visual field defects caused by optic nerve or post-chiasmatic injury commonly experience many limitations in their daily activities. The generally accepted...
Review Article
Report of the National Myopia Prevention and Control Workgroup 2006: A Summary
The prevalence rates of myopia, including high myopia (spherical equivalent at least –6.0 diopters), are rising to epidemic proportions in Asia. Singapore has one...
Review Article
Art and the Eye: The Impact of Ocular Pathology on Their Artistic Legacy
The review articles in this journal represent the advancing frontier of the dynamic specialty of ophthalmology. In the cacophony of advancing scientific opinion, we...
Review Article
Recent Developments of Informed Consent in Eye Research
Two recent court rulings1 have underlined the global trend of relying on the principles of medical ethics of autonomy or self-determination of the individual...
Review Article
Endoscopic Cyclophotocoagulation: An Overview and Asian Perspective
The heterogeneous group of conditions resulting in glaucomatous optic neuropathy have been treated with a combination of medical and surgical therapies. The advent of...
Review Article
Prophylaxis Against Endopthalmitis in Cataract Surgery
Endophthalmitis is an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of cataract surgery and often carries a poor prognosis. Due to variations in study design and...
Review Article
Current Biologic Agents in the Treatment of Uveitis
Uveitis is a general term describing inflammation of one or all parts of the uveal tract. Deleterious effects on vision, either by acute ocular...
Review Article
The Role of Advancement Flaps in Peri-ocular Reconstructive Surgery
The advancement flap is a modality of skin defect closure via mobilisation of tissue along a linear direction. It is one of the most...
Review Article
The Role of Muller’s Muscle-Conjunctiva Resection (MCR) in the Treatment of Ptosis
The Muller’s muscle (MM) is a sympathetically innervated upper eyelid muscle that elevates the eyelid besides the levator palpebral superioris. The MM resembles smooth...
Review Article
Age-related Macular Degeneration – An Asian Perspective
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a group of non-Mendellian disorders which share the common manifestation of chronic progressive degeneration of the macula involving changes...
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The Emerging Challenge of Age-related Eye Diseases in Singapore
Singapore has one of the fastest ageing populations in the world today. The current elderly population, defined as persons 65 years or older, comprises...
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Retinal and Cardiovascular Diseases: The “Common Soil” Theory
There is increasing evidence that retinal and cardiovascular diseases share a “common soil”. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and...
Editorial
Prevention of Blindness in Singapore: No Room for Complacency
It is now a well-known fact that Singapore’s population is greying dramatically due to the ageing of the “baby boomers” – defined as those...