As part of his Hood Fellowship, visiting UK-based Professor James Wolffsohn, head of optometry at Aston University, Birmingham, will be giving a lecture on the latest research and treatments for presbyopia after work on Tuesday 16 April at the University of Auckland.
A new dry eye disease resource for patients is being launched at the University of Auckland on Saturday 13 April...
Following the ODOB's targeted consultation in 2023 on extending hospital optometrists’ scope of practice to include intravitreal injections, the NZAO has agreed to progress the scope expansion and required training programme.
Authors of a large multicentre Indian study of 0.01% atropine drops reported a 64% reduction in myopia progression in children in their first year of treatment, with efficacy increasing by 11% more in
An Australian study has demonstrated ray-trace-based LASIK was safe and effective for correction of myopia with and without astigmatism, with 90% of patients achieving 20/15 ‘HD’ vision.
German researchers investigating four extracellular matrix proteins, brevican, neurocan, tenascin-C and tenascin-R, reported their cumulative loss reinforced optomotor limitations in mice. Study
A German research team found monitoring intermediate uveitis patients with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) enables practitioners to better anticipate disease progression.
The Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie lost the sight in his right eye, sustained serious wounds to his neck, face and abdomen and was left with his hand temporarily incapacitated after a stabbing at a 2022 literary event in Chautauqua, New York. Speaking to the media for the first t
US researchers have developed a new type of lens that uses a spiral-shaped surface to maintain a clear focus at different distances in varying light conditions. The new lens works much like progressive lenses but without the distortions typically seen with those lenses, reported the research team in
Innovent Biologics announced its phase 3 registrational study (Restore-1) of IBI311, a recombinant anti-insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor antibody, in Chinese subjects with thyroid eye disease (TE
The UK’s Association of Optometrists (AOP) has welcomed the British Labour Party’s commitment to working with primary care optometry to reduce hospital waiting times if it is elected as the next government.
A single injection of a drug which clears senescent retinal cells led to long-term visual improvements in patients with diabetic macular oedema (DMO), US researchers reported.
