
Prepping for financial year end
Prepping for the end of the financial year is about as mundane a task as a business can perform. Or, at least, the old way was.

Prepping for the end of the financial year is about as mundane a task as a business can perform. Or, at least, the old way was.

The Summer Scholar Symposium is an opportunity to recognise students who chose to undertake some real research projects within the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FMHS) at the University of Auckland during their summer break.

Auckland university’s School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) held its annual Low Vision Day on 7 March 2019. The day is designed for final year (part five) optometry students to gain valuable hands on experience working with low vision patients to increase our knowledge and awareness of the d

The Australian and New Zealand Strabismus Society (ANZSS), better known as the Squint Club, held their 2019 meeting at the Melbourne Children’s Hospital.

Marla Runyan is a legally blind, former world-class American track and field athlete and marathon runner, and one of only two visually impaired athletes to ever qualify and compete in both the Paralympics and the Olympic Games.

In 2015, Macular Degeneration New Zealand (MDNZ) launched its Professional Friends network; a chance to give something back to a charity at the frontline of macular degeneration education and to benefit by association. Here, three-year member, optometrist John Adam, explains the benefits of being a

The role of OCT in differentiating optic disc drusen from oedema; Multimodal imaging of buried optic nerve head drusen; A population-based evaluation of the association between hormonal contraceptives and idiopathic intracranial hypertension

The vitreous gel fills the posterior segment of the eye and has a volume of about 4ml. It is composed of 98% water and 2% structural proteins and extracellular matrix components. Collagen is the major

With recent media spotlight on doctor suicides and burnout, the release of Every Doctor couldn’t have been better timed. Every Doctor, written by two accomplished physicians, Professor Leanne Rowe and

Being brought up with movies like Terminator, I always imagined artificial intelligence, or AI as it’s increasingly called, would be this terrifying army of thinking metal beings who saw humans as obsolete. It’s refreshing then to know that not only are we using AI in our lives each day (for example

Now in its eleventh year, the Global Speciality Lens Symposium (GSLS), held annually in Las Vegas, is a unique conference focused on enabling eye care practitioners to make the best use of modern speciality contact lenses to help a wide range of patients.

Optical practices operating in today’s dynamic business climate would likely have noticed an even greater shift in the media landscape and its impact on consumer behaviour during the past 12 months. We know most small business owners struggle to find enough time in the day to implement change to sti