Two years after reviewing specialised gaming lenses for NZ Optics, UK-based writer Siu-Yin Shing has now co-founded her own gaming eyewear brand, XP-Pro Eyewear, with husband Ben Summers. “I loved the XP-Pro lens concept the day I first encountered it and knew it had real potential,” Shing said.
Researchers have found the Greenland shark maintains a functional and well-adapted visual system despite extreme cold, low light and frequent corneal parasitism.
US researchers found that levels of Chlamydia pneumoniae in the retina and cerebral cortex of Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) patients were elevated compared with controls. Published in Nature Communications, the study was led by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center researchers and analysed retinal and brain tissu
A national retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening programme and world-first ROP image-sharing repository is now up and running in Aotearoa to improve eye-health care for premature pēpi.
Dry eye disease (DED) specialist Dr Colin Parsloe, clinical advisor to the New Zealand Dry Eye Association, is bringing advanced management of complex dry eye to the Bay of Plenty and Tauranga Eye Specialists’ Papamoa clinic.
New Zealand healthcare professionals are being encouraged to report any suspected acute, persistent vision loss associated with glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, such as dulaglutide, liraglutide, semaglutide and tirzepatide.
A long-standing partnership with the South Auckland Pasifika Parkinson’s Support Group is helping University of Auckland neuroscientists probe tear fluid for biomarkers that could signal Parkinson’s disease years before clinical motor symptoms appear.
People with atopic eczema have an increased risk of developing serious eye disease, including keratoconus (KC), according to a large population-based analysis of UK health records.
New research shows commercially available artificial tears differ significantly in their viscosity and shear-thinning behaviour, which researchers said may have implications for ocular surface lubrica
Duke Eye Centre researchers said they may have solved a decades-old mystery in ophthalmology, paving the way for a potential treatment of Best vitelliform macular dystrophy, or Best disease. P
Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) variability may play an important role in guiding blood glucose control targets in diabetic patients and help predict the progression of adverse renal events or diabetic r
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have advanced understanding of how smoking damages the eye and contributes to the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). While it
