Have you ever considered what it takes to set up a brand-new hospital? What about restarting an ophthalmology programme in a post-Covid world? How about doing both on a ship? Ella Hawthorne boarded the Global Mercy, the world’s largest seafaring civilian hospital, to help do just that. Here she shar
New Zealand’s Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer and Dr Ben LaHood have been named in The Ophthalmologist’s 2023 Power List. The annual list celebrates the most influential figures in ophthalmology from all around the world.
Former acting CEO Amanda Trotman is the new CEO for the Optical Distributors and Manufacturers Association (ODMA).
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool was found to be as effective as senior paediatric ophthalmologists in discriminating normal retinal images from those with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP),
A new class of therapeutics which activate intrinsic biological stress-resilience mechanisms could be used to treat age-related and inherited retinal diseases, said US researchers.
OliX Pharmaceuticals has treated the first patients in its phase 1 clinical trial evaluating OLX10212, an investigational RNA interference-based gene-silencing (siRNA) therapeutic for the treatment of
Miebo, a single-ingredient tear stabiliser from Bausch + Lomb and Novaliq, has been given the green light by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), offering a new treatment for dry eye disease
A pioneering Johnson&Johnson Vision initiative to recycle its plastic cataract surgery waste is being rolled out across New Zealand.
The ever-popular Eye Doctors’ April Grand Round offered plenty of learning and a welcome opportunity to catch up with colleagues. Hosted at the Remuera Golf Club, guests were treated to insights into a variety of eye conditions while enjoying a two-course dinner.
US doctoral student Ruidong Zhang has developed spectacle frames capable of reading lip and mouth movements to infer speech, providing a hands- and eyes-free input method for a variety of applications.
Dr Riyaz Bhikoo reviews the latest in retinal research and uveal melanoma
New Zealand’s eyecare world and everyone else who cares about the eye health of New Zealanders are being urged to review and contribute to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO’s) national eye health plan to reduce the number of Kiwi’s going bling needlessly.
