Roaring 2021
As practices stock up ahead of the next Southern Hemisphere summer, this year’s most stylish sunnies are all about being subtle but having fun, reports Jai Breitnauer.
Jai Breitnauer5 min read
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As practices stock up ahead of the next Southern Hemisphere summer, this year’s most stylish sunnies are all about being subtle but having fun, reports Jai Breitnauer.
It has been more than 30 years since the New Zealand National Eye Bank (NZNEB) was established; in that time, Stats NZ has reported a dramatic 41% increase in New Zealand’s population. The NZNEB
Vergence, accommodation and visual tracking in children and adolescents evaluated in a multidisciplinary concussion clinic Wiecek EK et al Vision Research. Volume 184. 2021. Pages 30-36, ISSN
Eye Surgery Associates’ latest evening seminar at Auckland’s Tamaki Yacht Club drew a large group of optometrists who gathered together over dinner to hear guest speaker, entrepreneurial Waikato ophthalmologist Dr James McKelvie.
Optometry Australia hosted its 2021 instalment of Optometry Virtually Connected (OVC) at the end of June, with more than 2,400 delegates logging in. As well as the virtual conference, there were online exhibitors, a poster presentation and even entertainment! I must admit, however, that I was still
Along with everyone else, more than a year ago now, New Zealand’s optometry practices were thrown into turmoil amid a nationwide lockdown. Returning to practice a few months later, our dispensing methods had to adapt to new guidelines set by the Ministry of Health (MoH).
While drop therapies and surgical intervention are commonly used to control elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) associated with glaucoma, alternative health strategies to support these regimens largely go unnoticed.
In 1976, Robert Randall took on the United States government and won. Diagnosed with glaucoma and having tried conventional medication, the only treatment that offered him relief was cannabis. Fighting for the right to legally use his medication, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia sided
Historically, referrals to Blind Low Vision New Zealand (BLVNZ) have mainly been made by ophthalmologists and optometrists when a patient’s vision reached the qualifying threshold of 6/24 or 20⁰ of vision in the best corrected eye.
This year’s Ocular Therapeutics Conference has been divided into four ocular therapeutics evenings (OTEs) due to potential pandemic-related interruptions. The theme for the first was glaucoma.
Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) has historically been considered a subtype of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). It is characterised by recurrent serosanguinous maculopathy,
It was a case of third time lucky for the 2021 Glaucoma New Zealand (GNZ) Symposium. After two postponements over the past year, the symposium successfully went ahead at Alexandra Park in Auckland on 16 May.