Cataracts: patient education needed
Alcon’s new global cataract survey has revealed less than half of Australians surveyed understand cataract surgery involves implanting a new permanent lens.
Staff reporters2 min read
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Alcon’s new global cataract survey has revealed less than half of Australians surveyed understand cataract surgery involves implanting a new permanent lens.
The recent letter from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO), urging its New Zealand members not to train experienced hospital optometrists to do minor laser
Approximately 3,500 more cataract surgeries will be delivered in New Zealand over the next 18 months, following the government’s implementation of a nationally consistent Clinical Priority Assessment
Developed by internationally renowned ocular surface educators Professors Jennifer Craig (New Zealand), Lyndon Jones (Canada) and James Wolffsohn (UK), the World Council of Optometry (WCO) and Alcon’s
Australian researchers estimate inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are costing the country AU$781 million to AU$1.56 billion every year, while a report commissioned by Glaucoma Australia estimates
In partnership with Vision Australia, Blind Low Vision NZ (BLVNZ) has launched a dedicated equipment web shop to make shopping more accessible and convenient for people with vision impairment in New Zealand, it said.
Eye Health Aotearoa (EHA) has launched a draft Eye Health Action Plan to improve eye health in Aotearoa and is inviting New Zealand’s eyecare practitioners to provide input. The action plan is aligned
After an absence of two years, the Excellence in Ophthalmology awards made a welcome return at the University of Auckland. Professor Charles McGhee, the long-standing Maurice Paykel chair of
A large international study has found cataract patients fitted with blue-light-filtering intraocular lenses (BLF-IOLs) had favourable glaucoma outcomes compared to those receiving non-BLF IOLs.
Gisborne-based senior clinical lecturer Dr Graham Wilson has been appointed Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology with the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Otago, Wellington.
Researchers from the Robinson Research Institute (RRI) at Victoria University have developed a small magnet allowing the development of the world’s first portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.
In 2022 VOSO supplied $17,000 worth of surgical supplies to Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. This year the figure was closer to $25,000 of surgical supplies distributed to our Pacific neighbours.