Years of campaigning, led by consultant ophthalmologist Associate Professor Andrea Vincent from the University of Auckland, have paid off with the Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority’s (Medsafe’s) approval of Luxturna (voretigene neparvovec 0.05mg/mL) to treat patients with RPE65-related
In the battle against increasing resistance to antimicrobial drugs, Sydney’s Bacterial Ocular Surveillance System (BOSS) is an epidemiological study designed to help refine topical treatment regimens.
Learning and networking was the name of the game for 48 optometrists, dispensing opticians and students attending Specsavers Dunedin’s CPD evening.
The Vision Research Foundation is inviting optometrists and ophthalmologists to a dinner seminar on 21 February, with Dr Eve Higginbotham’s talk ‘The House of Medicine Culture: Why It Matters’
Associate Professor Denis Sheynikhovich of France’s Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne University, has won the 2022 Silmo Academy Award for his project, ‘Impact of visual ageing on mobility in a real environment’.
An advisory group of myopia specialists agreed a combination of Hoya’s MiyoSmart spectacle lenses and 0.01% atropine drops is currently the most effective treatment for myopia management in European children.
Central to Johnson & Johnson Vision’s stand was the Veritas Vision System, the next generation in cataract surgery, said J&J’s ANZ phaco specialist Henri Buhagiar.
Unveiled globally for the first time, the Tango Reflex Neo second-generation laser and Premium Refractive Outcome Capsulotomy (PROcap) technology took pride of place on Ellex’s stand at RANZCO in Brisbane. The new tech attracted a lot of attention, said Ellex’s Vanessa Standing. “The feedback has be
Launched at Euretina 2022 in September and unveiled for the first time in Australasia at RANZCO 2022, Heidelberg Engineering’s AppWay is described as a novel gateway solution for secure data exchange, allowing easy access to the latest ophthalmic AI decision-making apps.
Device Technologies has introduced a new surgical laser system that allows cataract surgeons to perform highly accurate and consistent capsulotomies in less than one third of a second, said Device Tech’s Emmanuel Calligeros. It tackles that age-old problem of creating consistently sized, centrally l
The World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted social enterprise VisionSpring’s model to equip primary healthcare providers with the skills they need to identify presbyopia, dispense reading glasses
Picture-archiving and communication systems (PACS) are all the rage in the US and elsewhere, but in this part of the world a lack of awareness is still holding many back, said Topcon Healthcare ANZ’s Lachy Wheeler.
