Retinal research and uveal melanoma
Dr Riyaz Bhikoo reviews the latest in retinal research and uveal melanoma
Dr Riyaz Bhikoo5 min read
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Dr Riyaz Bhikoo reviews the latest in retinal research and uveal melanoma
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
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Drs Leo Sheck and Aaron Yap review the latest research on geographic atrophy and diabetic retinopathy
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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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