As a kid, events before you were born, even just one or two decades earlier, lie in an unimaginably distant past. For me, the Second World War was that long ago place. Whoever those people were in the black-and-white footage, living in unimaginably different times, bore little resemblance to the peo
Since motherhood, I’ve been paying more and more attention to kids' glasses. Not that my children need them (yet), but some of their friends do and my eight-year-old niece started her glasses journey
Not long ago, award-winning Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri shared her family’s dry-eye disease (DED) remedy of onion vapour and honey. Onion enzymes and sulfenic acid combine to produce propanethial S-oxide, which is detected by corneal nerves and ultimately leads to aqueous secretion from
I was privileged to attend the 38th ANZ Cornea Society and Eye Bank Meeting in Perth, the first in-person meeting since 2020, together with New Zealand’s National Eye Bank team, including director Dr
A 58-year-old male with no underlying medical history was referred for retinal oedema adjacent to the optic nerve head with cystic changes and a shiny appearance on the overlying retina for the right eye. Unaided visual acuity was 6/9 and 6/6. He was asymptomatic and was incidentally noted to have m
Drs Leo Sheck and Aaron Yap review the latest research on geographic atrophy and diabetic retinopathy
We all know cataract surgery is no big deal. We refer patients all the time, reassuring them, reappraising them and sharing their delight when it all goes well, right?
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The anatomy of the peripheral cornea and its proximity to the vascular limbus makes it prone to a unique set of diseases, primarily immune-mediated ones. However, the limbus is still prone to infectious and degenerative diseases and thus distinguishing diseases may be difficult, so a diagnosis is of
The Canterbury Low Vision Clinic at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, is a centre of excellence for the rehabilitation of people with various debilitating eye conditions and, over the years, it has received regular referrals of patients with homonymous hemianopia (HH).
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“Living with retinitis pigmentosa has not affected my identity or cultural wellbeing,” said Gaylene Te Rauna (of Tūhoe and Ngāti Porou iwi), a feat she’s immensely proud of. Growing up in the Urewera National Park, in a small place called Ngāputahi, she said she’s endeavoured to keep abreast of evol
