Eye drops for presbyopia, supplanting readers, multifocal contact lenses and surgery, is being touted as the next big thing by some ophthalmic media commentators. But the presbyopic eye drop market is still in its infancy, “similar to the MIGS market a decade ago when multiple companies flocked to d
A trans-Tasman myopia group has released a new report, ‘The Australia and New Zealand Child Myopia Report – A Focus on Future Management’, to bring together the latest evidence-based data to help the general population better understand this looming public health issue.
The first stand-alone contact lens with a flexible micro battery has been unveiled by researchers from French engineering and technology universities IMT Atlantique and Mines Saint-Étienne.
Australian Junior doctor numbers have almost doubled in 10 years, leading to increased competition and a changing workforce composition according to the ANZ/Melbourne Institute Health Report.
Nurse practitioners and optometrists could soon be seeing patients with the backup of an ophthalmologist wherever they are based thanks to virtual reality.
The Cook Islands team headed back for their annual trip a little earlier than normal this year, from late March to mid-April, to continue the war against diabetes and the skirmish with cataracts. Moving the trip date a little earlier did not seem to result in any less work but the enjoyment of tempe
University of Auckland researchers say anaesthetic gases released annually by a single hospital in New Zealand have the same carbon footprint of 500 return plane journeys between New Zealand and
Findings from a large “real-world” study show the multimodal minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) device, Hydrus Microstent (Ivantis) safely and effectively treats a wide variety of glaucoma types, providing reductions in IOP and medication burden that are durable through at least three years,
California-based manufacturer of augmented reality (AR) glasses, Ocutrx Vision Technologies, has released a new, state-of-the-art design for its flagship Oculenz AR Wear glasses.
In New Zealand, the Auckland council has made changes to its health and hygiene bylaw to ban eyeball tattooing unless it’s carried out by an ophthalmologist, while adding that all services that pierce or risk breaking or burning tissue (not just the skin) must be licensed from 1 March this year.
Patients implanted with an iStent achieved significantly higher treatment success and were much less likely to need add-on medications five years post-operatively, compared to patients on topical
Australian scientists have found significant differences in the shape and biology of the same type of cell taken from different parts of the retina, according to a study published in eLife.The results
