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Engineering science professor Marinko Sarunic from Simon Fraser University, Canada has developed a new, shoebox-sized, retinal imaging scanner, that can still produce high-resolution, 3-D, cross-sectional retina, including individual photoreceptors, fine capillaries and blood vessels.
A review of emergency department visits across Australia in 2016-17 reveals that almost 120,000 people presented for eye conditions, of which just over 19,640 were considered non-urgent. While Optometry Australia, the peak professional body for optometrists, is concerned with the amount of people se
US filmmaker Jane Weiner is working on a documentary about myopia entitled ‘Losing Sight’, scheduled for release in 2020.
A new portable brain-computer interface, nGoggle, is proving promising for assessing visual function loss in glaucoma patients, said co-inventor Professor Felipe Medeiros from Duke University, North Carolina in an article in Ophthalmology Times.
Luxury fashion house Dior has opened its first boutique store dedicated to eyewear.
The total glaucoma market was estimated to be $2.6bn across the seven major markets in 2016 and this is expected to grow to $3.8bn in 2026, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.1%, according to GlobalData, a leading international data and analytics company.
The Volunteer Ophthalmic Services Overseas (VOSO) eye health aid group is adding low vision to its list of aid services from this year and is urgently seeking donations of low vision equipment to distribute in the Pacific Islands to low vision patients.
Visique has won this year’s Canstar Blue Award for customer satisfaction in the New Zealand optometrists’ category.
Eye Surgery Associates has expanded its operations in Auckland with a new location in Manukau joining its two existing clinics on the North Shore and in central Auckland.
Long-serving Elegance in Eyewear and Euro Optics team members, Gary Edgar and Christian Mair, were celebrated recently on one balmy evening in the Viaduct in Auckland. Between them Edgar, territory manager, and Mair, operations manager, have clocked up an impressive 45 years of service, with Edgar c
Essilor has added four new people to its New Zealand team and is hoping to add a fifth in the next couple of months, following what it said has been a successful year for its Platinum Partner practices.
In 1973, at the age of 23, the late broadcaster and keen amateur pilot Sir Paul Holmes had a near-fatal accident injuring his optic nerve and causing permanent vision loss in his right eye.