The Adelaide convention centre, with its mega floor to ceiling windows overlooking Adelaide’s stunning Riverbank Precinct and River Torrens was a pleasant surprise after so many walled in conference venues. The RANZCO 2018 exhibition room was also light and airy and hosted a hive of seemingly consta
Biomechanical engineer and R&D medical device technology specialist, Dave Walker has joined the J&J Vision surgical team as a product manager.
This year’s conference was held in the beautiful city of Adelaide and was well attended with 130 delegates from around Australia and New Zealand. The programme was extremely full with a great selection of speakers across the three days.
Toomac Ophthalmic has taken over the agency for all Bausch + Lomb’s surgical portfolio. Previously Toomac distributed B+L’s synergetic products, while its surgical products were sold by Radiant Health.
Recognising the importance of early intervention, Allergan ANZ invited delegates at the 2018 RANZCO Scientific Congress to witness its agreement to give Glaucoma Australia A$300,000 over three years to help eliminate blindness from glaucoma.
Eye Doctors’ last Grand Round of 2018 was introduced with a warm reminder about the importance of eye health by Dr Andrew Riley who shared a video of Volunteer Ophthalmic Services Overseas’ (VOSO’s) latest trip to Tonga. The video paid tribute to the local people, many of whom had travelled great di
The widely-regarded ophthalmic registrar teaching course in Australasia, the Dunedin Ophthalmology Clinical Course (DOCC), was once again held in Dunedin over the first two weeks of November.
Ophthalmologist Dr Dianne Sharp, founder of Macular Degeneration New Zealand (MDNZ), and retired optometrist and internationally-recognised pioneer diver, Quentin Bennett, have been recognised in this year’s New Year’s Honours list. Dr Sharp was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZ
ANZ has launched a new Visa Debit card designed specifically to help low vision customers. The card features bigger fonts, a notch to help customers identify the correct way to insert it into ATM and EFTPOS machines and raised dots indicating which is the right way up.
Scientists in Singapore have invented a new 'pen camera' that makes it easier for doctors to diagnose patients with glaucoma.Called the GonioPEN, the device could help tackle the eye disease by
A new point-of-care device could soon detect eye injury within minutes – a time frame crucial to treating eye trauma – simply by picking up levels of a key marker in a teardrop. University of
Scientists in Zurich, Switzerland, have developed tiny, bio-compatible, elastic robots which they say patients may one day ingest so the devices can deliver drugs directly to diseased tissue.
