Hybrid format key to local event success
Learning and networking was the name of the game for 48 optometrists, dispensing opticians and students attending Specsavers Dunedin’s CPD evening.
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Dinner seminar on gender and diversity in medicine
The Vision Research Foundation is inviting optometrists and ophthalmologists to a dinner seminar on 21 February, with Dr Eve Higginbotham’s talk ‘The House of Medicine Culture: Why It Matters’
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Calling all advanced CL educators!
The International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) is calling educators to put themselves forward to become IACLE Contact Lens Educators of the Year 2023. Three educators (one from each
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Visual navigation study of seniors bags Silmo award
Associate Professor Denis Sheynikhovich of France’s Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne University, has won the 2022 Silmo Academy Award for his project, ‘Impact of visual ageing on mobility in a real environment’.
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An eyeful of Face à Face
This season’s Face à Face collection, with geometrised materials contrasting with full vibrant colours, is a nod to the radical Memphis artistic movement of the 1980s, which disrupted the minimalism of the time. Like a Meccano construction set, model Eiffel recreates the aesthetics of the legendary
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Horace nominated best men’s frame
Horace in Cadillac has been nominated as the men’s frame of the year at the Love Eyewear Awards taking place at London’s 100% Optical on 25 February. Despite its chunky appearance, Horace is very
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O=Mega23/WCO4 welcomes major sponsors
CooperVision and Hoya Vision Care have come on board as major sponsors for the combined O=Mega23 and 4th World Congress of Optometry (WCO) industry event.
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Combination treatment consensus for myopia management
An advisory group of myopia specialists agreed a combination of Hoya’s MiyoSmart spectacle lenses and 0.01% atropine drops is currently the most effective treatment for myopia management in European children.
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Optica acquires Eyeline Optical
Optica Life Accessories has acquired Eyeline Optical, making Optica the biggest supplier of optical accessories in New Zealand.
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Wireframe – Blackfin’s new minimalist campaign
Photographed by Giovanni De Sandre, Blackfin’s Spring-Summer 2023 communication campaign spotlights its distinctive eyewear against a minimalistic, three-dimensional backdrop. The geometric background
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Essilor US$23.8m settlement
Essilor Laboratories of America has agreed to pay US$23.8m (NZ$37.2m) to settle a lawsuit which accused the eyewear giant of providing unlawful kickbacks to California eyecare providers (ECPs) in
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J&J’s next-generation phacoemulsification
Central to Johnson & Johnson Vision’s stand was the Veritas Vision System, the next generation in cataract surgery, said J&J’s ANZ phaco specialist Henri Buhagiar.
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