The new iCare Compass automated perimeter with active retinal tracking, now with new features, is designed to optimise clinic efficiency and clinical care, while ensuring accuracy, said iCare's Yuka Ishida.
As ever, RANZCO’s poster area offered a glimpse into some of the work behind the scenes by the region’s ophthalmologists and clinical researchers, and included a healthy smattering from Aotearoa. Here are some that caught our eye.
The results of a 48-week trial of MCO-010, an intravitreal, adeno-associated virus (AAV2)-delivered optogenetic therapy, on Stargardt disease patients, showed significant improvements in visual acuity and reported no serious adverse effects, reported researchers from Nanoscope Therapeutics.
Pharmac’s deferment of its decision to fund Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec), a gene therapy to treat RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy, is “disappointing”, said the University of Auckland’s
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Underpinning the advice an increasing number of ophthalmologists are putting into practice, Zeiss’ new Atlas 500 combines corneal topography and dry-eye assessment in one new piece of technology.
A novel cyclosporine drop formulation demonstrated significant improvement in corneal fluorescein staining (CFS) and in modified Symptom Assessment in Dry Eye (mSANDE) scores in patients with dry eye disease (DED), which was uncontrolled on Restasis (0.05% cyclosporine) therapy.
Auckland’s Toku Inc announced the US Food and Drug Administration has granted Breakthrough Device designation to its CLAiR platform, an investigational, AI-powered technology to assess cardiovascular
Two Lions Eye Institute researchers have won this year’s Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition with a detailed image of a rodent’s optic nerve head.
A Chinese study found spectacle lenses with highly aspherical lenslets (HAL) reduced or abolished macular choroidal thinning in myopic children, compared to those wearing slightly aspherical lenslets
Research from Australia have linked specific visual field defects to a higher car-crash risk. The University of Western Australia study is the first population-based investigation comparing a
Authors of a new study from the University of Western Australia said the main culprit behind the world’s myopia epidemic is computer screens, not mobile phones or tablets. Senior research fello
