An international team of scientists has successfully replicated the anti-reflective and self-cleaning properties found in the nanostructures covering the corneas of the eyes of small fruit flies, creating a natural and cost-efficient technique for nanocoating.
Nature’s Sunshine, a division of Nutricom Australasia, is boosting the sustainability of its entire product line and has launched a post-consumer recycled bottle for its antioxidant and nutrient supplement product Perfect Eyes.
Women in the US are 34% less likely to have a detached retina repaired compared with men, according to a recent study, suggesting that ophthalmology may not be immune to gender disparities.
Under new regulations, doctors and other allied health professionals in Australia who prescribe drugs must include the active ingredient name when preparing scripts for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
A US 10-year follow-up study has shown that infants who have cataract surgery still have a high risk of developing glaucoma, whether or not they receive an intraocular lens implant.
NZ Optics caught up with Pippa Martin, general manager for Glaucoma New Zealand (GNZ), one drizzly Auckland morning to find out more about what’s in the pipeline for 2021.
A UK ophthalmologist is seeking pharma support to manufacture iodine drops for Covid-associated conjunctivitis and promote them as an alternative to antibiotics.
The Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles has pioneered a prototype contact lens with microchannels to improve tear flow and evaluate biomarkers in tears.
Researchers from the Kellogg Eye Center in Michigan, USA, have confirmed the presence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in human post-mortem ocular tissues intended for transplant, suggesting the virus could be transferred to otherwise healthy patients via donor eye tis
New Zealand’s eye care organisations’ umbrella group Eye Health Aotearoa* has launched an open letter petition addressed to the health minister Andrew Little, calling on the government to fund New Zealand’s first National Eye Health Survey (NEHS).
The French Poison Control Centre has reported a sevenfold increase in alcohol-based hand-sanitiser (ABHS) ocular exposures in children in 2020, while in other countries paediatric ophthalmologists are
Chinese researchers have shown that adding the antibiotic cefuroxime to the irrigating solution used during cataract surgery reduces the risk of postoperative endophthalmitis. The nine-year