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When South Island optometrist John Veale hopped on a plane recently to Rarotonga, for what was perhaps his 40th trip with the NZ Aid eye team, he expected to see a few urgent medical cases. He didn’t expect to be one himself!
Being brought up with movies like Terminator, I always imagined artificial intelligence, or AI as it’s increasingly called, would be this terrifying army of thinking metal beings who saw humans as obsolete. It’s refreshing then to know that not only are we using AI in our lives each day (for example
When Vicki Hilliam discovered she was losing her peripheral vision in her 50’s, she was absolutely devastated. A referral to the Blind Foundation could have made all the difference, she tells Jai
As oil reserves run low and discarded plastic starts to choke our oceans, recycled sunnies are becoming an international buzzword.
Tinted or polarised? Mirror or photochromic? Sunnies aren’t one size fits all, you need to make sure your patient has the right tools for the job.
Seven years, five jobs, four colleges and finally, Jasmine Brodie is a DO.
In rural Taranaki, on a dairy farm that looks just like any other, there is a boy playing with his dad’s tractor. Just four years old, he marvels at the giant wheels and squeals with delight when the engine starts. It’s a scene endemic to rural New Zealand, but this particular little lad, Lucas Kise
Cure Kids has invested millions of dollars in child health research over the past 45 years, including many projects relating to eye health, so we sent Jai Breitnauer to meet executive chairman Roy Austin to find out what keeps this charity giving.
CQ Hotel in Wellington has become New Zealand’s first hotel to be awarded a ‘Be. Accessible’ rating for the way it caters for physically, visually and audibly-impaired people. Jai Breitnauer checked it out.
Andrea Braakhuis is a registered dietitian with a PhD from the University of Auckland. Her work with antioxidants triggered her interest and research into the impact of what we eat on eye health.
CQ Hotel in Wellington has become New Zealand’s first hotel to be awarded a ‘Be. Accessible’ rating for the way it caters for physically, visually and audibly-impaired people. Jai Breitnauer checked it out.
It is fair to say Amélie Morel is optical royalty. Born into the industry, she is a director of the family business, the Morel Company, a well-respected optical frames designer and manufacturer of 130 years, along with brothers’ Francis and Jerome. The legacy alone is intimidating, but despite bein
