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“I had so many plans,” Chrissie Whitfield admits, listing off a selection of exciting activities on her lifelong bucket list, all of which are connected by one thing – the need for good vision.
Jai Breitnauer6 min read
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“I had so many plans,” Chrissie Whitfield admits, listing off a selection of exciting activities on her lifelong bucket list, all of which are connected by one thing – the need for good vision.
As good as Zoom meetings and webinars have been over the Covid-19 lockdown, it was great to be back with some ‘real life’ CPD at the Eye Doctors Grand Rounds at Ormiston Hospital in Auckland in June.
Optometry Australia’s (OA’s) first online conference and product showcase Optometry Virtually Connected attracted more than 2,200 registrations, making it one of the largest optometric clinical conferences ever held in Australia and New Zealand.
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or vaping devices heat nicotine, flavours and other chemicals to create a vapour the user inhales. Vaping has been marketed as a substitute for tobacco cigarettes to help smokers kick their addiction, but vaping’s harmful effects are still largely unknown.
If you are reading this in its lustrous glossy printed form, you have in your hands a suddenly quite rare and precious thing: a magazine.
Bradley Walsh, the Dr Who and Coronation Street actor, footballer and witty presenter of UK ITV’s The Chase, now starring in Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad on TVNZ, suffers from blepharitis.
Primary or congenital retinal telangiectasia, more commonly called Coats’ disease or Coats’ syndrome, is a non-hereditary, developmental, retinal vascular disorder characterised by dilatation and exudation of the retinal vasculature, and an important cause of leucocoria in children.
The Covid-19 pandemic will likely change the way we do business for a long time to come. For most businesses’ turnover is down and owners are having to deal with an environment that is constantly changing, affecting inventory requirements (especially those reliant on imports) and staffing capacity.
New Zealand has fared well globally in the fight against Covid-19, but it has not been without cost. It is only now the smoke is clearing enough to see how the pandemic has affected our main shopping thoroughfares and what impact that may have on optometry practices.
The British Optical Association Museum’s latest exhibition, Pathos Ocularis - The Beautiful and the Curious, was inspired by artist Iluá Hauck da Silva’s own experience of dry eye, diplopia and photophobia.
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed operation globally, with over 30,000 performed per annum in New Zealand. The surgery has transformed into a refractive procedure in recent years, with