You can’t beat Wellington on a good day and you certainly couldn’t beat it in the delivery of the RANZCO NZ Branch Annual Scientific Meeting at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wind? What wind!
Low-concentration atropine eyedrops for myopia control in a multi-racial cohort of Australian children: a randomised clinical trialLee S S-Y PhD, Lingham G et alClinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Although the flyer for this year’s RANZCO New Zealand Branch meeting promised ‘You can’t beat Wellington on a good day’, it didn’t specify how rare a good day is. But that didn’t really matter, since the quality of this year’s speakers meant delegates had no excuse to sneak out into the miserable we
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) has written to its New Zealand members urging them not to train experienced hospital optometrists to do minor laser
A New Zealand study has been launched to establish the safety and efficacy of rapid treatment extension of Avastin (bevacizumab), the first-line anti-VEGF agent for neovascular age-related macular
In May, the Eyes and Eyelids docs left behind a wet and wild Auckland for the wet and wild, but somewhat warmer Cook Islands. Dr Paul Rosser has made this journey 28 times over 30 years, becoming an honorary Cook Islander in the process. This is my 19th trip, after my first visit as a baby-faced reg
I've fallen into a bit of a rut lately, with recent developments on the visual front forcing a re-think about my grandson Sam's advice to take things more seriously. Up to this point I've never felt the urge to be an 'investigative' blindy; there's too much stuff out there and it keeps getting updat
Mrs D, an independent 83-year-old who’s very active in church activities and several committees, complained of frustration with her optometrist for not getting her reading prescription right. She loves reading and crosswords but was struggling to do either, see food on her plate, prices and directio
I just read the May 2023 edition and loved the article from Siu-Yin Shing (Dispensing Matters, p42) regarding the dispensing of children’s glasses. Thanks for putting this in –we orthoptists and hospital practitioners deal with poorly fitting children’s frames on a daily basis.
Technology infiltrates just about every part of our lives. While too much can have negative consequences, particularly on the eyes, tech also holds the power to transform how we work and play for the better. When it comes to your optometry business, the right technology can not only enhance your wor
In busy day-to-day dispensing, it can be easy to focus on the initial in-store experience of the patient. But do we offer the same standard of care when they return to collect their spectacles?
Have you ever considered what it takes to set up a brand-new hospital? What about restarting an ophthalmology programme in a post-Covid world? How about doing both on a ship? Ella Hawthorne boarded the Global Mercy, the world’s largest seafaring civilian hospital, to help do just that. Here she shar
