Years ago, while pondering whether or not to invest in an OCT (I know, it’s mad to think it was ever up for debate!) I attended the Topcon OCT conference in London. During a coffee break, I bumped into optometrist Brian Tompkins, who mentioned he was running a workshop on using OCTs to aid scleral l
This year’s Orthoptics Australia Annual Conference took place virtually, so I got to enjoy the array of talks during a visit to my hometown of Hobart, with an interactive Slack channel providing an opportunity to engage with other attendees and see the various locations they were joining from.
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A Canadian study has shown cannabinol (CBN) promotes neuroprotection, abrogates changes in extracellular matrix (ECM) protein and normalises intraocular pressures (IOPs), indicating the compound’s therapeutic potential in the treatment of glaucoma, said study authors.
Keratoconus appears both more common and more severe in Aotearoa than in many other countries and it has been the most common indication for corneal transplantation in New Zealand for several decades. Collagen corneal cross-linking (CXL) provides the opportunity to halt or slow the progression of ke
For previous Australia New Zealand Glaucoma Society conference (ANZGS) meetings I have enjoyed jetting off to Brisbane for a couple of days to be immersed in the humidity of Queensland in February. This year, I swapped educating myself sitting in the air-conditioned ballroom of some fancy Queensland
Your high-prescription patients need a little extra TLC. After all, some may have had a long (and scarring!) history of choosing frames to hide those scarily thick lenses without much success. But
In my first article in February, I explained that while accessibility is the right thing to do, it is also the smart thing to do – embracing accessibility provides an opportunity to grow your business through tapping into what we at Be.Lab call ‘the access market’. Here, I look at ways to make simpl
Ocular melanoma (OM) is the most common cancer in the adult eye. OM affects structures in the eye containing melanocytes: the choroid, ciliary body, iris (collectively called the uvea) and the
The RANZCO Practice Managers’ Conference was the first full online conference I have attended, so I was a little dubious about how it would go. Traveling to Brisbane for a long weekend and networking with likeminded people sounded so much more appealing than giving up a weekend to sit at home with a
I read with interest the article by Wadhwa et al regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the eyecare system in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Covid-19 has placed an overwhelming burden on our healthcare system with a major impact on how ophthalmic services operate in New Zealand. Notably, ophthalmol
