Unveiled to the Australasian market last year, Johnson & Johnson Vision’s Abiliti 1-Day myopia-control soft contact lens is currently being trialled with 10 practices across New Zealand. The pre-market evaluation release is to gain insight to connect the company’s therapeutic and clinical learnings
LINK: https://www.nzoptics.co.nz/live-articles/assessing-the-presbyopic-drop-landscape/
A mobile air-sterilisation unit which allows cataract surgery to be performed in an office will help relieve some of the pressure on New Zealand’s hospitals, said supplier Medix21’s Camille Furnandiz.
Taking pride of place on one side of Ophthalmic Instrument Company’s stand at CCLS NZ was a simple portable fundus camera and laptop, designed to demonstrate Optain’s Eyetelligence software platform. The artificial intelligence (AI) software can be paired with most practice fundus cameras to analyse
Recently TGA approved for New Zealand, the Suoer SW-800 is a specially designed, handheld vision screener for young children and babies from three months old.
Attracting significant interest in the CCLS 2024 exhibition hall, Ophthalmopro’s Eye-Light IPL device complete with low-level light therapy (LLLT) mask enables eyecare practitioners to combine intense pulsed light (IPL) treatments with LLLT to treat dry eye and many other ophthalmic conditions.
New to Australasia and making its first appearance in New Zealand, Topcon’s NW500 non-mydriatic retinal camera took pride of place on Device Technologies’ stand at CCLS NZ.
LINK: https://www.nzoptics.co.nz/live-articles/irds-treatable-with-antimicrobials/
An invitation to make my way up the meandering driveway of Remuera Golf clubhouse overlooking the rolling grassy 18th fairway was a relaxing proposition after surviving Auckland rush-hour traffic. As the afternoon golfers departed, a group of optometrists sat down to an evening of education and dinn
The annual CCLS conference photo competition attracted a wealth of talent, many amusing title puns and some very strong voting, said CCLS NZ president Adele Jefferies, delighting the audience with a selection of some of the more weird and wonderful entries. There can only be three winners, however,
One-year data from Visioneering Technologies’ (VTI) Protect study has demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of its Naturalvue multifocal contact lenses for myopia progression in children.
A University of Waterloo team has developed a new contact lens material which could accelerate corneal wound healing by releasing drugs in proportion to wound severity.
