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Best known for its customisable wooden frames, where customers pick the shape and then the colours of the different parts of their frames, Feb 31st has now launched a new metals range with the same unique, customisable abilities.
The Rugby World Cup has come and gone for another four years, without the hoped-for result for most. But the ophthalmology department at Greenlane Clinical Centre went almost All Black during its Rugby World Cup at work day, supported by former New Zealand Warriors hardman and Dancing with the Stars
The Cornea and Contact Lens Society (CCLS) one-day conference will return to Wellington on Sunday 29 March 2020. Coinciding with CupaDupa, New Zealand’s largest street festival, the event will take place at Mac’s Brew Bar and numbers are expected to fill up fast.
At their AGM on Saturday the 9th November, Blind and Low Vision NZ (formerly The Blind Foundation) appointed Wellington dispensing optician John Billings to its board.
The ACOD and Optiblocks New Zealand 2019 optical dispensing graduation ceremony was a well-attended and warm affair with lots of laughter and a few tears.
Professor Joanne Wood is the first woman to receive the International Optometrist of the Year Award. Prof Wood, from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Queensland University of Technology,
French start-up Lexilens was awarded Silmo’s Special Price Visual Health for its innovative reading aid eyewear for dyslexics.
A global research team, led by scientists in Singapore and the US, has discovered an underlying link between degeneration of the eye and brain. The beta-amyloid gene association was identified
Scientists at the University of Arizona have identified a potential molecular mechanism that may hold the key to understanding how pressure is regulated in the eye, potentially leading to future
A US study found a single dose of 5% povidone-iodine in patients who tested positive for adenoviral conjunctivitis improved symptoms and reduced the prevalence of viral particles. The double-masked
A US study comparing the performance and usability of self-operated optical coherence tomography (OCT) system Notal-OCT V2.5 with commercial OCTs found 90% of patients could competently use the device
