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Ophthalmologist Dr Dianne Sharp, founder of Macular Degeneration New Zealand (MDNZ), and retired optometrist and internationally-recognised pioneer diver, Quentin Bennett, have been recognised in this year’s New Year’s Honours list. Dr Sharp was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZ
ANZ has launched a new Visa Debit card designed specifically to help low vision customers. The card features bigger fonts, a notch to help customers identify the correct way to insert it into ATM and EFTPOS machines and raised dots indicating which is the right way up.
The 2018 Bachelor of Optometry graduates celebrated in style in November with a combined ceremony in the Great Hall at Auckland’s Town Hall, with their colleagues in pharmacy and nursing, hosted by the staff of Auckland University’s Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, and afterwards at the Mil
Scientists in Singapore have invented a new 'pen camera' that makes it easier for doctors to diagnose patients with glaucoma.Called the GonioPEN, the device could help tackle the eye disease by
A new point-of-care device could soon detect eye injury within minutes – a time frame crucial to treating eye trauma – simply by picking up levels of a key marker in a teardrop. University of
Scientists in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed tiny, bio-compatible, elastic robots which they say patients may one day ingest so the devices can deliver drugs directly to diseased tissue.
University of Toronto researchers have shown that fluid which flushes out the eye’s optic nerve doesn’t flow properly in mice with glaucoma, one of the world’s leading causes of permanent
By combining two imaging modalities - adaptive optics and angiography - American investigators at the National Eye Institute (NEI) say they can see live neurons, epithelial cells, and blood vessels
Caught short without your contact lens case or care solutions? Lens unexpectedly falls out? What would you do? NBA star Ron Baker last year chose to pop his lens in his mouth to wet it and then place
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed an eye drop consisting of a fluid gel, loaded with a natural wound-healing protein called decorin, that can help prevent or minimise vision
SightGlass Vision is developing spectacle lenses to slow the progression of nearsightedness or myopia in children, and is enrolling participants in the US and Canada in a clinical trial to test
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced a new year-long collaborative ophthalmology project aimed at reducing waiting times and improving care for people with eye conditions, with a focus on
