Last year we met the Kiser family from Taranaki, who were raising money to visit America to attend a conference about Stickler Syndrome. Jai Breitnauer caught up with them to see how it all
Eye drops for presbyopia, supplanting readers, multifocal contact lenses and surgery, is being touted as the next big thing by some ophthalmic media commentators. But the presbyopic eye drop market is still in its infancy, “similar to the MIGS market a decade ago when multiple companies flocked to d
The annual Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society (ANZGS) symposium, held this year as part of the eighth World Glaucoma Congress in Melbourne, featured the Gillies Lecture and a showcase of glaucoma research from the region’s universities.
The O=Mega19 clinical conference is designed for optometrists at all stages of their career. Presented by Optometry Victoria and replacing the SRC annual conference, it brings together international and domestic speakers, with dual streams and concurrent practical breakout sessions.
As part of the comprehensive education programme at O=Mega19, and running concurrently with the main clinical conference, are a series of masterclasses designed for optical dispensers, practice managers and optometrist practice owners with an interest in dispensing.
Subthreshold nanosecond laser intervention in AMD: the LEAD study; Vessel density of superficial, intermediate and deep capillary plexuses using OCTA; Longitudinal changes in eyes with HCQ retinal toxicity
One of the first challenges of my glaucoma fellowship was mastering gonioscopy and the iridocorneal angle. As you know, there are many indications for performing gonioscopy, including patients potentially at risk for angle closure, determining the cause of intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation in var
Professor Colin Green was invited to deliver a presentation at the prestigious Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting in Vancouver on his team’s research into diabetic retinopathy as part of their ongoing hunt for better treatments.
English punk-rock musician William Michael Albert Broad, better known as Billy Idol, experienced an eye scare in the early 1980s when his contacts fused with his corneas after shooting the video to his hit song, Eyes without a face. Idol wrote about the incident in his auto-biography Dancing with my
Macular degeneration (MD) no longer sentences patients to functional blindness, but early diagnosis and referral is crucial, as are optometrists as the front-line eye health care providers who can educate, refer and support.
For some optometrists and dispensing opticians, the idea of children in their practices sends shivers up their spines. All those little hands grasping at their beautiful frame displays or running amok amongst stock stands is the stuff of nightmares. But catering for kids could bring a whole new leas
For the first time the World Glaucoma Congress (WGC) came to the Southern Hemisphere. With many of the big names in glaucoma making the trip downunder, this conference promised to be a great way of catching up with the latest thinking in glaucoma without having to cross too many time zones! It was a
