A recent study found Nova Eye Medical’s iTrack ab-interno canaloplasty microcatheter significantly reduced intraocular pressure (IOP) and medication requirements for patients with primary open-angle g
A Vietnamese study has shown how non-ophthalmic healthcare workers could detect signs of glaucoma from retinal images with an accuracy comparable with ophthalmologists after completing a short online
Moorfields has announced it will explore a possible new treatment for retinal detachment surgery complicated by scar tissue from proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), the most common cause of retinal
A UK study found that since Black and South Asian diabetics were more likely to develop sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR), standard biennial screening would have delayed detection of some
LINKS: https://nzoptics.co.nz/articles/archive/red-light-therapy-for-myopia-control/In response to a young patient of Chinese ethnicity developing temporary vision loss and recoverable retinal damage
After more than five years and four applications, Southern Cross has added minimally invasive glaucoma surgery devices to its members’ policies...
Featuring 73-year-old veteran artist Reba Pal painting chalachitra, a Bengali art form from East India, the professional award of the 2023 World Sight Day Photo Competition was won by Santanu Bose, while Marisa Martins Armada won the amateur category for her picture, ‘The Smile of Happiness’.
Global coverage of the world’s first whole-eye transplant blanketed media in early to mid-November. Led by Professor Eduardo Rodriguez, director of the Face Transplant Programme at NYU Langone Health in New York, the 27 May surgery lasted 21 hours and included a team of more than 140 surgeons, nurse
Marking this year’s World Sight Day, and its focus on the importance of eyecare in the workplace, representatives from some of the country’s eye health organisations came together at the Greenlane Clinical Centre in Auckland and Auckland City Hospital to promote regular eye checks to public and staf
Of all the hobbies most suited to an extreme high-myope, photography wouldn’t be most people’s first thought. But not only is Jan Miskovic a passionate lensman, he’s also the world’s highest recorded myope, at -108D.
Specsavers’ recent dispensing workshop series featured paediatric facial anthropometry specialist Dr Alicia Thompson, who focused on developing the dispensing opticians’ (DOs’) frame-fitting skills for children.
A 14-year-old boy whose dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) caused his corneas to blister and scar has had his sight restored from perception of hand motion to 20/25, thanks to a new topical gene therapy.