Dance your socks off for brightness
Third-year students at Nantes Atlantique School of Design, France, were tasked with creating eyewear for the future and came up with six innovative concepts.
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Barkers - Barkers optical range has had a big injection of new models. Classic timeless acetate frames include beautiful detailing, one example being the pattern on the temple needle of the transparent colours. The four new metal models, meanwhile, focus on clean lines and masculine shapes.
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Stars and their eyes… Whoopi Goldberg
Multi-award-winning actor, comedian, author and television personality Whoopi Goldberg suffers from acute angle closure (AAC) glaucoma and is an outspoken proponent for medical cannabis, which she uses as part of her treatment.
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OIC: driving dry eye practice
Designed to fuel an optometry or ophthalmology practice’s dry eye offering, French-based ESW Vision’s Tearcheck and Tearstim compact diagnostic and treatment options were on show for the first time in New Zealand on Ophthalmic Instrument Company’s (OIC’s) stand.
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Zeiss: Cirrus 6000, CT Lucia
New to New Zealand and Australia, Zeiss product specialists Lahiru Gunasena and Hollie McDonald were proudly displaying Zeiss’ next-generation OCT, the Cirrus 6000, which can scan a patient’s eye in 0.4 seconds.
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Device Tech: when portability’s key
Taking advantage of the opportunity to actually talk to ophthalmologists face-to-face, Device Technologies’ Diego Sonderegger said he was delighted to finally discuss Swiss-based Oertli’s extremely lightweight surgical platform, the Catarhex 3, at the 2021 RANZCO NZ meeting.
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Driving equitable access to DR screening
As part of the eye health community’s push to improve eyecare among Kiwis with diabetes, a new study has been launched to examine the eyecare pathway for Māori, Pasifika and young adults at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy (DR) to identify where the system is failing them and what can be done
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BOptom grad ratios increase
A study by Deakin University and Coopervision has revealed that between 2011 and 2019, the number of registered optometrists in Australia increased by 30.1%, outstripping the country’s 12.1% population growth.
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Medix 21: affordable quality for a good cause
Reflecting the Balance theme of the RANZCO NZ 2021 conference, which included a push for better sustainability in ophthalmology, especially within cataract surgery, ophthalmic products supplier Medix 21 was proudly displaying Aurolab products from the Aravind eyecare system.
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Printable CL sensor to replace ERGs?
An all-printed, stretchable corneal sensor built on commercially available disposable soft contact lenses (CLs), which could supplant electroretinogram (ERG) examinations, has been developed at Purdue University in Indiana, USA.
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RANZCO NZ 2021 presentation award winners
The RANZCO NZ 2021 conference presentation award winners were:
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New anti-allergy CLs
The first vision-correction contact lens (CL) to relieve allergic eye itch has received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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