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.
The Adelaide convention centre, with its mega floor to ceiling windows overlooking Adelaide’s stunning Riverbank Precinct and River Torrens was a pleasant surprise after so many walled in conference venues. The RANZCO 2018 exhibition room was also light and airy and hosted a hive of seemingly consta
The 2018 Eye Institute Annual Conference once again kicked off with two very practical workshops, this year tackling foreign body removal and gonioscopy.
This year’s Eye Institute conference featured guest speaker Professor Joanne Wood, from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, and showcased some of the newer members of the team alongside those we have come to expect at this annual event.
When I first arrived at St George’s Eye Care (SGEC), I already knew that Christchurch and the South Island had so much to offer from great windsurfing (my passion) and surfing to cycling (another passion) tramping and skiing. So when I started to lead the service at SGEC, I wanted to ensure the care
A few months ago I was supervising a 5th year optometry student’s primary care clinic. It was a simple dry eye follow up. The patient Josh (not his real name) was a 26-year-old male economics student, who one could say erred on the side of being a pedantic hypochondriac. Nevertheless, the persisting
If you added a theme to Auckland Eye’s last Insight seminar, it would have to be to look under the covers. Presenters Drs Justin Mora, Jo Sims and Dean Corbett each discussed things which are not always what they seem on initial presentation, demonstrating how we need to dig deeper for clues and tak
Sub-macular haemorrhage in neovascular AMD; Prophylactic treatment of retinal breaks; Ultrastructural and histopathologic findings after pars plana vitrectomy with a new hypersonic vitrector system
Artificial intelligence (AI) has delivered remarkable achievements: near human-level image classification, handwriting transcription and speech recognition. Google Trend shows a recent boom in interest in AI, machine learning (ML) and deep learning, especially in published medical texts (Fig 1) as a
What do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Clinton, Prince William Windsor and actor Eddie Redmayne have in common? They’re all men and they’re all colour blind, something they share with about 8% of men of Northern European descent.
