Eye Health Aotearoa (EHA) has appointed Dr Ayesha Verrall, MP and Labour Party spokesperson for health, and Sam Uffindell, MP and chair of the Health Select Committee, as its new Parliamentary Friends of Eye Health (PFEH) co-chairs.
The Australian team behind the Laser Intervention in the Early Stages of AMD (LEAD) study is now recruiting patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who have early signs of atrophy or nascent geographic atrophy (nGA) for the new LIANA (laser intermediate AMD with nGA) study.
The National Party-led government remains committed to a national Clinical Priority Assessment Criteria (CPAC) score of 46 for cataract surgery, despite a growing waitlist and the outsourcing of the procedure to private practices being paused in some districts, confirmed Te Whatu Ora.
Gisborne Hospital’s ophthalmology research team is poised to pilot keratoconus screening after being awarded $39,918 by the Australian & New Zealand Eye Foundation (ANZEF).
The University of Auckland’s Associate Professor Stuti Misra has been awarded the prestigious American Academy of Optometry Foundation’s (AAOF) Outstanding Emerging Leader Award.
Newly published research led by the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) found a retinal fundus scan can accurately predict a person's risk of stroke, paving the way for non-invasive, routine test
Kicking off February's professional education, Retina NZ is inviting all ECPs to a trailblazing afternoon with renowned keynote speakers.
A meta-analysis by researchers in China has shown global myopia prevalence is anticipated to grow from a third to two-fifths of children by 2050, which they partly attributed to the effects of Covid-1
Melbourne-based tech company Cylite has developed a new hyperparallel optical coherence tomography (HP-OCT) device, capturing true volumetric 3D images of the anterior and posterior segments.
Researchers in Australia showed a novel selection pathway for multifocal intraocular lenses (mfIOLs) for cataract patients was cost-effective, with patients achieving excellent vision and self-reporte
A meta-analysis by an international team of researchers found artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep-learning (DL) models achieved higher accuracy than ophthalmologists in diagnosing infectious kera
The phase 2b clinical trial of a contact lens (CL) containing bimatoprost and hyaluronic acid demonstrated it reduced intraocular pressure (IOP) in cases of mild to moderate glaucoma while improving p