The risk of developing one of three serious eye conditions increases by 85% for regular users of common erectile dysfunction (ED) medications such as Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Stendra, according to new research by the University of Columbia (UBC).
The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) three-year Doctor of Optometry (DOpt) degree has been accredited, with conditions, by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ).
Restricted by our recent lockdowns, the Visual Impairment Charitable Trust Aotearoa (VICTA) came up with a new creative way to support the low vision community by launching its own radio show.
When considering how vision works, it is tempting to treat the retina as a digital camera. It converts light into electricity, performs some simple computations and reliably (but passively) conveys the result to the user, who is left to make sense of the picture.
Registrations are now open for Optometry Australia’s annual virtual conference, Optometry Virtually Connected (OVC), which will be held online from 17 to 19 June.
In the first study of its kind to quantify the rate of ocular toxoplasmosis in Australian, a team from Flinders University has found that one in 149 Australians have retinal scars caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, indicating it can be considered common.
Johnson & Johnson Vision has unveiled its next-generation TearScience Activator Clear for more precise and fully automated treatment of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD). The new system features a
After 20 years of successfully supporting and creating eye health services in Cambodia and beyond, Rose Charities New Zealand has officially wound up as a legal entity.
A large-scale Taiwanese study has found patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) have an almost 30% increased risk of having tinnitus, compared to those without POAG.
Even moderate artificial light exposure during sleep harms heart health and increases insulin resistance, a US study found. Professor Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine in the Ken and Ruth Davee
A large-scale US study has found a moderate association between strabismus and anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depressive disorder.
US engineers have found that the key to robots and self-driving cars ‘seeing’ the world more naturally and safely may be optical coherence tomography (OCT).