Woman goes in for cataract surgery, has 27 contact lenses removed from her eye

Enlarge (credit: Getty | UniversalImagesGroup) Sometimes, there’s more to old age than meets the eye—sometimes, it’s 27 contact lenses jammed in there, according to a case study published this month in the British Medical Journal. A 67-year-old British woman, complaining of eye discomfort and dryness, was scheduled last November to have routine surgery to remove […]

NHS struck by new operations crisis as patients wait for knee, hip and cataract surgery

GETTY Patients waiting for knee, hip and cataract surgery are facing long delays, report finds Emergency funding requests by health bodies for the once-routine procedures have shot up in recent years, according to an investigation by the British Medical Journal.  And patients face a postcode lottery on who receives the life-changing NHS operations, with varying […]