Sea2See founder François van den Abeele talks to Drew Jones about why it isn’t enough for his company to be ‘just’ carbon neutral, how many pairs of frames you can make from a tonne of discarded fishing nets and the trouble with installing toilets on Ghanaian beaches.
When considering how vision works, it is tempting to treat the retina as a digital camera. It converts light into electricity, performs some simple computations and reliably (but passively) conveys the result to the user, who is left to make sense of the picture.
The first time I heard about a monster bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff, I was in the doctor’s surgery. My GP was wiry, a keen bike rider, a role model. He and half a dozen friends were about to set off on a mighty fundraising adventure, riding the length of the country in honour of a mate who ha
British TV personality Anthea Turner, 61, encouraged her fans to get eye injuries checked out immediately, following an accident involving a curtain cord that left her “moments away from going blind”.
As one of a handful events not cancelled or moved online, Eye Doctors’ first 2022 Grand Round was well attended by around 60 participants, all eager to catch up in person over some refreshments and claim some much-needed CPD. The new Remuera Golf Club venue did not disappoint, despite the mid-semina
Recent literature has increasingly reported on a clinical entity found in the fellow eyes of patients undergoing treatment for unilateral exudative neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
A common incidental clinical finding among optometrists is ‘narrow angles'. That worryingly thin black space on Van Herick assessment alerts us to dust off our gonioscopy lens and perhaps look for some more benoxinate. Management would be straightforward if all the clinical signs showed an eye in tr
I am sure that it doesn’t feel that long ago when, as affiliated health providers, you were consumed with the introduction of vaccination mandates.
Sandy Grant is one of only a handful of low-vision co-ordinators in New Zealand. Susanne Bradley caught up with her to find out more.
As a medical student in Oxford, UK, in the 1990s, I was fortunate enough to be lectured by the late Dr David Sackett, considered one of the pioneers of evidence-based medicine (EBM), defined as the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. As well as being
New Zealand’s first chief allied health professions officer Dr Martin Chadwick was appointed in February 2019. His challenges include improving health equity and transdisciplinary working, both hot topics within the eyecare community. Drew Jones found out how it’s all going.
Despite attempts since the early 1800s, success in corneal transplantation remained elusive until thebeginning of the 20th century. Indeed, corneal transplantation is the oldest form of tissue transplantation with the first successful full-thickness corneal transplant performed by Eduard Zirm in 190
