A photovoltaic retina implant has shown “clinically meaningful improvement” in vision for people with geographic atrophy from AMD, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
University of Auckland researchers are investigating how New Zealand patients feel about and respond to ‘self-referrals’ when doctors refer patients to healthcare providers in which they have a financial stake.
After more than a decade, NZ Optics publishers Lesley Springall and Nick Griffiths have sold their business to Auckland-based media-business duo James Butcher and Stephen Old.
US researchers using a mouse model of cerebrovascular disease found retinal vascular imaging and phenotype can function as a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), particularl
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Researchers in Japan found microneedles as small as 34G may be suited to biopsies of intraocular fluids and suspicious lesions, potentially leaving self-healing wounds.
Excitement is building in Auckland over the opening of the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) in February 2026. For the first time in more than a decade, both the Royal Australian and
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