What’s new from Mido 2022
Much like the rest of the world, the Mido Eyewear Show had to endure a two-year hiatus, eventually taking place on 30 April-2 May 2022, belatedly celebrating Mido’s 50th anniversary.
Siu-Yin Shing5 min read
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Much like the rest of the world, the Mido Eyewear Show had to endure a two-year hiatus, eventually taking place on 30 April-2 May 2022, belatedly celebrating Mido’s 50th anniversary.
The final Ocular Therapeutics Evening (OTE) of the University of Auckland’s Buchanan Ocular Therapeutics Unit (BOTU) series was held online and focused on paediatric eyecare.
After two years of limited or cancelled meetings due to Covid-19, it was a breath of fresh air to arrive at Blenheim’s Marlborough Events Centre and ASB Theatre for the RANZCO NZ Branch meeting. Amid the lingering pandemic and ever-changing gathering restrictions, RANZCO’s conference committee and o
Adaptability in challenging times was the theme of the 2022 RANZCO New Zealand branch meeting in Blenheim. As with the main sessions, shared with the ophthalmologists, the ophthalmic nurses and allied health component of the conference reflected a health sector rapidly adapting to the pandemic’s ong
A clear view of the ciliary zonule, or zonule of Zinn, is an uncommon sight at the slit lamp. Being transparent, poorly preserved post-mortem and resistant to absorbing histological stains, it wasn’t until the end of the 19th century that consensus on its anatomy was achieved.
Sea2See founder François van den Abeele talks to Drew Jones about why it isn’t enough for his company to be ‘just’ carbon neutral, how many pairs of frames you can make from a tonne of discarded fishing nets and the trouble with installing toilets on Ghanaian beaches.
When considering how vision works, it is tempting to treat the retina as a digital camera. It converts light into electricity, performs some simple computations and reliably (but passively) conveys the result to the user, who is left to make sense of the picture.
The first time I heard about a monster bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff, I was in the doctor’s surgery. My GP was wiry, a keen bike rider, a role model. He and half a dozen friends were about to set off on a mighty fundraising adventure, riding the length of the country in honour of a mate who ha
British TV personality Anthea Turner, 61, encouraged her fans to get eye injuries checked out immediately, following an accident involving a curtain cord that left her “moments away from going blind”.
As one of a handful events not cancelled or moved online, Eye Doctors’ first 2022 Grand Round was well attended by around 60 participants, all eager to catch up in person over some refreshments and claim some much-needed CPD. The new Remuera Golf Club venue did not disappoint, despite the mid-semina
Recent literature has increasingly reported on a clinical entity found in the fellow eyes of patients undergoing treatment for unilateral exudative neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
A common incidental clinical finding among optometrists is ‘narrow angles'. That worryingly thin black space on Van Herick assessment alerts us to dust off our gonioscopy lens and perhaps look for some more benoxinate. Management would be straightforward if all the clinical signs showed an eye in tr