Featuring 73-year-old veteran artist Reba Pal painting chalachitra, a Bengali art form from East India, the professional award of the 2023 World Sight Day Photo Competition was won by Santanu Bose, while Marisa Martins Armada won the amateur category for her picture, ‘The Smile of Happiness’.
Global coverage of the world’s first whole-eye transplant blanketed media in early to mid-November. Led by Professor Eduardo Rodriguez, director of the Face Transplant Programme at NYU Langone Health in New York, the 27 May surgery lasted 21 hours and included a team of more than 140 surgeons, nurse
Marking this year’s World Sight Day, and its focus on the importance of eyecare in the workplace, representatives from some of the country’s eye health organisations came together at the Greenlane Clinical Centre in Auckland and Auckland City Hospital to promote regular eye checks to public and staf
Of all the hobbies most suited to an extreme high-myope, photography wouldn’t be most people’s first thought. But not only is Jan Miskovic a passionate lensman, he’s also the world’s highest recorded myope, at -108D.
Specsavers’ recent dispensing workshop series featured paediatric facial anthropometry specialist Dr Alicia Thompson, who focused on developing the dispensing opticians’ (DOs’) frame-fitting skills for children.
A 14-year-old boy whose dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) caused his corneas to blister and scar has had his sight restored from perception of hand motion to 20/25, thanks to a new topical gene therapy.
In an Asia-Pacific official first, refractive surgeon Dr Dean Corbett performed a successful bilateral implant of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) new extended depth of focus (EDOF) intraocular lens (IOL) PureSee on a husband and wife at the Oasis Surgical clinic in Auckland.
A Mexican study found eyes with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) exposed to early immunosuppressive therapy (IMT) were more likely to achieve earlier inflammatory control, fewer recurrences and had better visual outcomes.
A US retrospective real-world review comparing the efficacy of soft peripheral defocus contact lenses (PDCLs) and ortho-k found no difference in annual axial length (AL) growth between the two
Heidelberg Engineering has partnered with sight-saving charity Orbis to fund research and training for eyecare professionals around the world via Cybersight, Orbis’s telemedicine and e-learning platform.
Dipping my toes into The Optical Metaverse nudged my thoughts towards the potential for virtual reality and augmented reality to enhance everything in eyecare from education to marketing, writes Renee Lunder
Unveiled at O=Mega23, Toku Eyes’ new artificial intelligence (AI)-based software reveals patients’ ‘BioAge’, based on their cardiovascular health via a retinal scan.
