Behind the headlines

30 January 2020
Winter 2020

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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