There’s no vision like Snowvision
After a five-year hiatus and a shaky start due to inclement weather causing flight diversions and cancellations, Snowvision 2023 got underway with a traditional opening cocktail function in wintry
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Grant Watters
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Cardi the penguin’s cataract operation
Recently, in a first for Aotearoa, Dr Peter Hadden from Auckland’s Eye Institute removed a dense juvenile cataract from one eye of a struggling seven-year-old gentoo penguin named Cardi, who lives at Sea Life Kelly Tarlton’s in Auckland. Gentoos are very social and visual creatures, living up to aro
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Specialty CL research review
Grant Watters presents his review of some of the latest eye research in the field of speciality contact lenses, focusing on ortho-k, scleral CLS for ocular surface disease and piggyback and hybrid CL systems.
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Snowvision 2018: a fun way to learn
Snowvision, a boutique fundraising conference which aims to send two Kiwi optometrists each year to study at the State University of New York (SUNY), is organised biennially by myself and Hamish Caithness, who look after the speakers’ programme, and Catherine Small, Dave Robinson and Kim Taylor, who
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Nutraceutical supplements for eye health?
Intense exposure to light, intense metabolic activity and high oxygen tension render the human eye particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage at all levels from the ocular surface and dry eye, cornea, anterior chamber, crystalline lens and back to the retina, macula and optic nerve. Hence compounds
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Honey for blepharitis?
In the 1980s, Professor Peter Molan of Waikato University, having heard Māori legends about the medicinal properties of mānuka, established a Honey Research Unit and developed methods to evaluate the
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