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US researchers found the majority of fibromyalgia patients wearing green-light-filtering spectacles needed less pain medication, showed a decline in anxiety scores and a statistically significant difference in responses to the question of fear of pain.
Auckland University’s Dr Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku Eyes, has just launched the company’s second AI retinal screening product, Oraicle, in the US. The company’s technology saves sight and lives by identifying those most at risk of diabetic retinopathy and cardiovascular events. So why
In March 2022, the breakthrough gene therapy treatment Luxturna was approved for public funding in Australia, two years after the UK did so and four years after it was fast-tracked to become the first FDA-approved gene therapy. Designed for people with vision loss caused by inherited retinal dystrop
Titled ‘A Secure Future’, the 2022 Budget included $191m over two years for Pharmac and $168m for the Māori Health Authority, as part of a record-breaking $13.2bn healthcare investment.
Corneal transplantation was the first, and is still the most frequently performed, human transplant procedure. Yet donor corneas are available for just one in 70 patients worldwide, with 53% of the world’s population unable to access this vital tissue, according to a 2016 paper by Professor Philippe
Against a backdrop of potential Medicare funding cuts for anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections, Optometry Australia (OA) has urged the nation’s major political parties to commit to investing AU$1 million over two years in a collaborative-care pilot study to more effectively
Sea2See founder François van den Abeele talks to Drew Jones about why it isn’t enough for his company to be ‘just’ carbon neutral, how many pairs of frames you can make from a tonne of discarded fishing nets and the trouble with installing toilets on Ghanaian beaches.
The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) three-year Doctor of Optometry (DOpt) degree has been accredited, with conditions, by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ).
New Zealand’s first chief allied health professions officer Dr Martin Chadwick was appointed in February 2019. His challenges include improving health equity and transdisciplinary working, both hot topics within the eyecare community. Drew Jones found out how it’s all going.
The recent Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) SEE (social, ethical and environmental) summit gathered together a host of sustainability-driven individuals to share ideas about how eyecare practitioners, optical practices and the industry can work more sustainably.
According to Perkins School for the Blind, the oldest school for the blind in the US, in 1921, having lost his sight in an accident, James Biggs painted his walking stick white to make it more visible to the cars driving near his home. The idea spread globally over the next decade or so. But, aside
Melbourne paediatric orthoptist Maddy Scavone had a dream – not figuratively, an actual dream – which woke her up and prompted her to start sketching. She drew adjustable spectacle frames that she envisioned would grow with a child, potentially saving parents a significant proportion of the annual A
