A 68-year-old man has been under my care for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). His right eye is under long-term anti-VEGF therapy for wet AMD. He has non-exudative (dry) AMD in his left eye and wanted to know if there was anything he could do to improve the outcome for his left eye. His visual
This year’s highly successful 37th Cornea and Eye Bank Meeting was held over two stunning summer days at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland overlooking the bustling Waitemata Harbour.
In a very short space of time we have plunged into the unknown. Overnight our daily vocabulary has transformed to include Covid-19, PPE, ‘flattening the curve’, infection spikes, contamination,
This year’s Australia & New Zealand Glaucoma Society (ANZGS) meeting was held in the South Australian city of Adelaide. The magnificent Adelaide Oval Stadium was a much-approved choice of venue for the conference, particularly for those cricket fans among us, as it is the ‘home’ of the legendary
The district health boards’ (DHBs) follow-up clinic performance figures to August 2019 have been released in response to an Official Information Act (OIA) request¹. They reveal that those waiting both 50% and 100% too long have more than doubled compared with last year’s figures².
In recent years there has been a resurgence in interest in orthokeratology. This clinical procedure involves the refractive reshaping of the cornea through overnight wear of a gas permeable contact lens.
At the age of 15, I visited a medical Mercy Ship and from that day on I knew I was going to serve on one. So, when then the opportunity came, I jumped at the chance, which is how I found myself onboard the YWAM (Youth with a Mission) PNG Mercy Ship in late 2019.
The 2019 Eye Institute conference workshops day once again proved popular with most of the limited places snapped up well before the day and the rest exceeded by those who turned up unexpectedly.
Building on work started by her predecessor, new chair of RANZCO’s Women in Ophthalmology (WIO) Advisory Group Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer says she’s excited about the opportunity to make a difference to the lives of budding female ophthalmologists.
The gorgeous city of Napier, which proudly showcases it’s rise from the devastation of the 1931 earthquake to become the Art Deco capital of New Zealand, turned on a splendid weekend for the 89th New Zealand Association of Optometrists conference.
MDNZ is 10 years old this year. Jai Breitnauer talks to three wet MD patients who have benefited from the organisation’s support, to find out about their experience of diagnosis and what life’s like for them now.
We may mock our Australian neighbours, especially when it comes to cricket and sandpaper, but their ophthalmic nurses sure know how to put on a conference. Saturday 14 September in Melbourne was the 2019 Australian Ophthalmic Nurses Association Victoria Inc (AONAVIC) state conference, which includes
