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Cataract surgery complications associated with tamsulosin (Flomax), used to treat enlarged prostates and to help with the passage of kidney stones, decreased significantly over a decade, according to
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have uncovered a key process contributing to blindness in people with diabetes, paving the way for new preventative treatments. The researchers discovered
CR Surfacing Laboratories has partnered with lens developer Avulux, offering New Zealand’s estimated 642,000 migraine sufferers a new non-pharmaceutical treatment for migraine triggered or worsened by light.
A new ophthalmology conference, Women in Vision NZ, will take place from 12-13 November 2022 at the Woodhouse Mountain Lodge in Matakana.
Swedish researchers have used a corneal implant made of pig-skin-derived collagen to restore vision to 20 advanced keratoconus patients, 14 of whom were legally blind and six who had severely impaired sight.
Dubbed by the organisers as the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest optical event, registration is now open for O=Mega23, which is being held in tandem with the fourth World Congress of Optometry (WCO4) in Melbourne from 8-10 September 2023.
Most eyecare professionals understand that restoring healthy equilibrium to the ocular surface is necessary to relieving the symptoms of dry eye disease (DED). But it’s equally important to acknowledge that healthy balance has been disrupted not just in the tear film and ocular surface, but in the d
In the first large-scale population-based study to evaluate the associations between lens thickness and lifestyle, Japanese researchers found almost half of Tokyo’s preschoolers are myopic.
Israeli start-up OrCam Technologies’ handheld digital reader OrCam Read has been named Best Consumer Edge AI End Product by the 2022 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) New Zealand branch has issued a position statement with strategies to address the country’s “fractured” diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening programme.
Specsavers Dubbo and Specsavers Dapto in Australia, plus New Zealand’s Specsavers Hornby and Specsavers Dunedin were celebrated at the Specsavers Clinical Conference 2022, taking the annual awards for
New Zealand’s Specsavers practices in Hornby and Dunedin, plus Australia’s Dubbo and Dapto practices were celebrated at Specsavers Clinical Conference 2022, sharing awards for clinical excellence and patient care.