When Vicki Hilliam discovered she was losing her peripheral vision in her 50’s, she was absolutely devastated. A referral to the Blind Foundation could have made all the difference, she tells Jai
As an aging population, growing patient-to-ophthalmologist ratios, demand for new treatments and an increasingly stretched healthcare dollar put eye care under more and more pressure internationally, the scope of optometry is changing.
It has been just over a year since Ozurdex, a dexamethasone-sustained release implant, was first funded by Pharmac for diabetic macular oedema (DMO), the most common cause of visual loss in our
On a somewhat balmy, 30+ degree Adelaide Sunday, the Australian Ophthalmic Nurse Association (AONA) met for their annual conference, held this year in the wonderful Adelaide Convention Centre. I say balmy, because the last time I was in Adelaide, the temperature was 40+ degrees, for six days straigh
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO) hosted its 50th annual Scientific Congress in Adelaide, South Australia at the end of 2018, at the heart of the swooping season.
This year’s conference was held in the beautiful city of Adelaide and was well attended with 130 delegates from around Australia and New Zealand. The programme was extremely full with a great selection of speakers across the three days.
Recognising the importance of early intervention, Allergan ANZ invited delegates at the 2018 RANZCO Scientific Congress to witness its agreement to give Glaucoma Australia A$300,000 over three years to help eliminate blindness from glaucoma.
Researchers in France have developed a simple, largely self-administered, questionnaire which they say effectively assesses risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) without the need for
Johnson & Johnson Vision hosted a continuing education evening in Wellington to discuss Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) treatment and the Tecnis Symfony Intraocular lens (IOL). It was open to ophthalmologists, nurses and optometrists and it was great to see a mix of these professions in the ro
I have yet to ride a Lime Scooter, but when it comes to the internet, boy was I an early and enthusiastic adopter. Back then there was just a solitary guy at Telecom responsible for keeping their internet service going from an office in Airedale St in Auckland, and there was a guy at Waikato Univers
The 2018 Eye Institute Annual Conference once again kicked off with two very practical workshops, this year tackling foreign body removal and gonioscopy.
In the early 19th century, the common hypothesis was that some ophthalmic diseases came from “inside the eye”, but there was no reliable way to view a retina safely. The red flex was the only sign to look for and it was done with the patient in a prone position on a bed and the clinician in a supine
