Lost your specs?
Well, you are not alone. Eyewear is on the top 10 Uber lost list in New Zealand and across the world, along with other items regularly left behind such as phones, keys, wallets and jewellery.
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Well, you are not alone. Eyewear is on the top 10 Uber lost list in New Zealand and across the world, along with other items regularly left behind such as phones, keys, wallets and jewellery.
Much loved and celebrated tenor, Andrea Bocelli, is famously blind but perhaps less-known is that Bocelli suffered from congenital glaucoma from a very young age. Already at great risk for vision loss because of his glaucoma, the Italian opera singer went totally blind at 12 years old after sufferin
Working with the Fred Hollows Foundation, Specsavers optometrists Ian Russell and Megan Glover from New Zealand and Australian graduate optometrists Tiffani Lai and Rowena Fuller spent a week in Fiji helping to train budding eye care professionals and examine patients.
Specsavers announced another record-breaking year in its 2017/18 annual review, with global revenue rising 7% to £2.61 billion, including total UK revenue of £1.39 billion and A$947 million in Australia (10% up on last year), in the year to 28 February 2018.
Researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, have developed soft contact lenses that not only correct vision but can also monitor glucose and medical conditions and be used for ocular pain relief or
A new prescription app and delivery service has been launched to try to combat poor patient prescription compliance. The new system, developed by Auckland-based Zoom Health, allows GPs to send
The New Zealand Association of Optometrists’ (NZAO) annual conference is now open for registration. This year the conference will be held in Paihia in the glorious Bay of Islands, from Friday 12 to Saturday 13 October, at the Copthorne Hotel by the Waitangi Treaty grounds.
Novartis confirmed it will spin-off its eye care division, Alcon, to shareholders and complete a share buyback of up to US$5 billion by the end of 2019, funded mainly by selling its stake in its consumer health joint venture, to focus on its prescription drug business.
A study in Japan, led by Professor Shigeru Kinoshita from Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, has shown cultured human corneal endothelial cells (CECs) injected into the anterior chamber could increase CEC density, providing a possible alternative to donor tissue and avoiding many of the compl
Luxottica has bought optical glass sun lens manufacturer, Barberini for €140 million, entrenching its focus on “made in Italy” and high-quality sun lenses, said the international Italian eyewear conglomerate.
Dr Lola Mugisho was awarded a Dean’s List placement from the University of Auckland in recognition of excellence achieved for her PhD thesis, Vascular breakdown in diabetic retinopathy: role of connexin43 and possible interventions.
Stepping into the media spotlight himself, well-known TV news journalist Patrick Gower dug deep and shared his own personal battle with glaucoma in support of Glaucoma New Zealand’s (GNZ’s) 2018 July appeal, ‘Light up Glaucoma’.