Seeing red about blue light?
“Blue light damages your eyes,” trumpets the media. Overnight Instagram influencers dazzle in impossibly gorgeous selfies in impossibly magnificent locations, wearing blue light filtering glasses.
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Heather Douglas
17 articles
One voice for NZ’s eye health sector
Vision 2020 in New Zealand has been re-energised as an independent voice for the broader eye health sector and will now become a much more robust and representative nationwide initiative, said
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Annual eye check-up for seniors
Responding to deputy prime minister Winston Peters’ election promise of an annual health checkup, including an annual eye exam, for SuperGold Card holders, the Eye Health Coalition (EHC) presented
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Strabismus measurement made easy
University of Auckland researchers say affordable, infrared eye tracking could be more effective than current standard clinical tests at detecting and measuring strabismus in patients. The School of
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Caution urged for online symptom check
Canadian researchers have urged patients to exercise caution if depending on online symptom checkers to self-diagnosis ophthalmic conditions. In their study, the researchers said they found the top
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Presbyopia eye drops - the next big thing?
Eye drops for presbyopia, supplanting readers, multifocal contact lenses and surgery, is being touted as the next big thing by some ophthalmic media commentators. But the presbyopic eye drop market is still in its infancy, “similar to the MIGS market a decade ago when multiple companies flocked to d
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New hope for DR sufferers
Professor Colin Green was invited to deliver a presentation at the prestigious Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in Vancouver on his team’s research into diabetic retinopathy as part of their ongoing hunt for better treatments.
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Therapeutics Bill: a step back?
Concerns are being raised that the Therapeutic Products Bill, currently going through Parliament, may result in an unintended step back for New Zealand optometrists’ hard-won rights to prescribe eye-related therapeutics directly for patients.
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Papilloedema in kids, AMD, PED and more
A warm summer evening and the lure of the beach or BBQ were not enough to deter attendance at the Eye Doctors’ first Grand Round in February at the Novotel Ellerslie, Auckland. The four presenting ophthalmologists gave the full house plenty to think about and, together with the CPD points and networ
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UK-NZ amblyopia device approved
A handheld gaming device designed by UK and Auckland-based researchers to rebalance amblyopic children’s vision has been approved as a medical device in the UK.
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SOVS’ virtual patients
The University of Auckland School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) is making the most of its two indirect ophthalmoscope simulators by integrating them as part of the lab component of the Part IV BOptom course in 2019.
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Retinal disease toolkit
Retina International (RI) has launched a global toolkit on inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), a central hub with information aimed at IRD patients, their families and carers, health care
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