The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses have designated 2020 as The Year of the Nurse and Midwife to honour the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. To mark this occasion, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and nursing part
The junior doctors provided an outstanding range of presentations at this year’s RANZCO NZ conference, setting higher and higher standards for those to follow each year.
More than half of the 2000 questions asked on an Australian helpline between 2014 and 2018 were about mixing complementary medicines with prescription drugs.
The first Eye Institute seminar of 2019 was hosted by Dr Nick Mantell, who introduced the surgery’s new marketing advisor, Janelle Brunton-Rennie, who’s worked with Dr Mantell in the past. With a new marketing team in place, it was no surprise to see a new venue - th
Eye health was the theme of a recent public lecture series featuring Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF)-funded researchers from The University of Auckland.
Vision 2020 Australia, the new combined voice for the blind and low vision sector following its merger with the Australian Blindness Forum, has laid out its priorities ahead of the 46th Parliament of Australia opening in July.
A public awareness campaign launched in the UK this month illustrates the impact smoking has on the eyes after a survey revealed optometrists are seeing high numbers of smokers with eye disease. The
Zeiss Medical New Zealand has appointed two new product specialists to replace Chris Money: former nurse Hollie McDonald, who’s looking after the company’s intraocular lens (IOL) portfolio; and former Auckland Eye ophthalmic technician, Lahiru Gunasena, who’s responsible for devices.
Toomac’s team Ian MacFarlane and Mark Taylor were showcasing the new, bright red Brumaba Genius Eye operating table.
Results from a large multicentre study have confirmed the equivalence of Optos’ optomap ultra-widefield (UWF) technology to the EDTRS gold standard for grading diabetic retinopathy (DR).
Ophthalmic Instrument Company (OIC), the RANZCO NZ conference’s principal sponsor, had four product launches on display on its understandably busy stand.
A new addition to the annual exhibitor line-up, medical recruitment company Mercury and its resourcing sister company, Sequre, were on-hand at the RANZCO NZ conference to talk to doctors and nurses about locum, part-time or permanent medical positions in New Zealand.
