Glaucoma Awareness Month – January 2026

 According to the charity Glaucoma UK there are over 700,000 people in the UK who have been diagnosed with glaucoma.  Glaucoma Awareness Month is aimed at raising awareness of the disease and its symptoms to bring an end to preventable glaucoma sight loss.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS

• Medical treatment of glaucoma; Sun, Xinghuai; Dai, Yi; 2019 (Springer).

• Kanski's clinical ophthalmology: a systematic approach; Salmon, John F; 2020 (Elsevier); 9^th edition.

• Medical and Surgical Retina: Recent Innovation, New Perspective, and Applications; Giudice, Giuseppe Lo; 2023 (IntechOpen) – available as an Open Access e-book.

• Glaucoma: Recent Advances and New Perspectives; Davey, Pinakin Gunvant; 2023 (IntechOpen) – available as an Open Access e-book.

• Glaucoma; Shaarawy, Tarek M; 2015 (Elsevier); 2^nd edition – only available for UHNM users via ClinicalKey with an Open Athens login.

• Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery; Sng, Chelvin C. A; Sng, Chelvin C. A; Barton, Keith; 2021 (Springer Nature) – available as an Open Access e-book.

• Glaucoma: Methods and Protocols; Jakobs, Tatjana C; 2018 (Springer Nature) – only available as a Keele e-book.

• Constable and Lim Colour atlas of ophthalmology; Constable, Ian J; Wong, Tien Yin; Raja, Vignesh; 2018 (World Scientific); 6^th edition.

• Ophthalmology Secrets; Gault, Janice A., 2023 (Elsevier) 5^th edition – available for UHNM users via ClinicalKey with an Open Athens log-in, or as Keele e-book.

JOURNALS

• Journal of current glaucoma practice; (Jaypee) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2012 onwards.

• Frontiers in ophthalmology; (Frontiers Media S.A) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2021 onwards.

• BMJ open ophthalmology; (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2016 onwards.

• Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology; (Sage Publications Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards.

• Ophthalmic surgery, lasers & imaging retina; (Slack, Inc) – only available as a Keele e-journal from 2019 onwards.

• American journal of ophthalmology case reports; (Elsevier) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2016 onwards.

• Case reports in ophthalmological medicine; (John Wiley & Sons Ltd) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011.

• Journal of Current Glaucoma Practice, (Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Private Limited) – NHS ejournal 2012 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require login with an NHS Open Athens account.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• “Damage and repair in retinal degenerative diseases: Molecular basis through clinical translation”; Zhang, Ziting; Ma, Junfeng; et al; Neural regeneration research, 2026-04, Vol.21 (4), p.1383-1395; DOI: 10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-24-01016

• “Domain-specific multi-transfer approaches for deep learning-based glaucoma screening in high myopia patients”; Goyanes, Elena; De Moura, Joaquim; et al; Expert Systems with Applications, 2026-01, Vol.296, p.129265, Article 129265; DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2025.129265

• “Research progress on molecular therapy for glaucoma (Review)”; Wang, Weiwei; Cheng, Gangwei; et al; Molecular medicine reports, 2026-01, Vol.33 (1), p.1-10; DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2025.13757

• “A Blurred Vision of Health: Metabolic Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Glaucoma in a Large Taiwanese Population Study”; Chang, Sheng-Hao; Lee, Jia-In; et al; International journal of medical sciences, 2026-01, Vol.23 (1), p.216-226; DOI: 10.7150/ijms.121641

• “Cellular senescence and glaucoma”; Guo, Liang; Wang, Na; et al; Experimental gerontology, 2025-04, Vol.202, p.112718, Article 112718

• “Clinical outcomes of the PAUL Glaucoma implant for neovascular glaucoma”; Deubel, Carolin; Walz, Wolfgang; et al; Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology, 2025-08, Vol.263 (11), p.3199-3209; DOI: 10.1007/s00417-025-06933-3

• “OCT-based diagnosis of glaucoma and glaucoma stages using explainable machine learning”; Hasan, Md Mahmudul; Phu, Jack; et al; Scientific reports, 2025-01, Vol.15 (1), p.3592-20, Article 3592; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-87219-w

• “Bilateral Primary Congenital Glaucoma in a Newborn”; Consales, Alessandra; Araimo, Gabriella; et al; The Journal of pediatrics, 2025-04, Vol.279, p.114464, Article 114464; DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114464

• "Patient Attitudes toward Distress Screening and Referral in Glaucoma Care"; Choi, Eun Young; Chou, Natalie et al.; Ophthalmology Glaucoma; 2025, Sep 18:S2589-4196(25)00190-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.ogla.2025.09.004. Online ahead of print.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

• NHS website:
• Glaucoma - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/glaucoma/

• Charities / Further information:
• Glaucoma UK - https://glaucoma.uk/
• Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) - https://www.rnib.org.uk/

• ClinicalKey Patient Information Leaflets [Only available to NHS staff with OpenAthens login]:
• Glaucoma - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_94bf5890-126c-449f-b39a-17735982c959
• Glaucoma Surgery - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_735cda90-1993-44bf-80b1-53281fd6cd1f

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.