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Christchurch and Australia-based optical laboratory, CR Surfacing is gearing up for growth with a complete overhaul of its technology and processes to ensure it remains at the cutting edge of lens
Bailey Nelson’s first New Zealand partner, under its new shared ownership model is Kiwi optometrist Andrew Brady, who has opened his new co-owned Bailey Nelson store in High Street, Auckland.
Tauranga-based Bay Eye Care optometrist, Alex Petty, has been awarded the 2017 Cornea and Contact Lens Society (CCLS) Scholarship to further his knowledge in rigid contact lenses.
The 2017 ADONZ conference marked a significant milestone in DO’s New Zealand history, with the announcement that future conferences will now host our own graduation ceremony for New Zealand’s home-grown, newly-trained dispensing opticians.
Model, fashion designer and mum, Kate Moss has intermittent, right exotropia, proving that perfect symmetry is not the secret to her modelling success.
Kiwi eye health professionals took to the airwaves in October adding their voice to the call for governments on both sides of the ditch to ban eyeball tattooing, following yet another patient horror story. Auckland ophthalmology training registrar Dr Zak Prime and New Zealand Association of Optomet
Eyewear technology company, eSight, has launched its new generation eSight 3 electronic autofocus wearable magnifier in New Zealand and Australia. This hands-free low vision glasses technology aims to help visually-impaired patients see in much the same way as sighted people do, allowing them to car
‘Shaun of the dead’ actor and screenwriter, Simon Pegg has sectorial heterochromia iridium, with a portion of his right iris a different colour to the rest. Pegg, whose heterochromia is congenital, refers to his eye condition as “slightly mutanty.” In an interview for the UK variety show he explain
Glaucoma New Zealand (GNZ) has announced a Gordon Sanderson Scholarship in memory of Associate Professor Gordon Sanderson who died earlier this year. “Teaching was both a vocation and passion for
Mark Collman is now the sole owner of Phoenix Eyewear after purchasing the shares of long-standing optical industry participants and Phoenix’s co-founders Peter Nicholls and Deb Lake. “It’s very
Kiwi ophthalmologist, Dr Simon Dean has taken a novel approach to designing a state-of-the-art, non-contact corneal aesthesiometer (NCCA). Here he shares his thoughts on the device and its use in a
After almost two and a half years of work, the near 400-page TFOS DEWS II report has been published by the Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS). This massive undertaking involved 150 researchers
