The World Health Organisation has named 2020, the International Year of the Nurse, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. The title honours now only one of the world’s
The Acute Eye Service (AES) is the busiest sub-speciality department within one of the busiest outpatients departments in New Zealand, the Eye Department at Auckland’s Greenlane Clinical Centre.
Best known for its customisable wooden frames, where customers pick the shape and then the colours of the different parts of their frames, Feb 31st has now launched a new metals range with the same unique, customisable abilities.
The Rugby World Cup has come and gone for another four years, without the hoped-for result for most. But the ophthalmology department at Greenlane Clinical Centre went almost All Black during its Rugby World Cup at work day, supported by former New Zealand Warriors hardman and Dancing with the Stars
The Cornea and Contact Lens Society (CCLS) one-day conference will return to Wellington on Sunday 29 March 2020. Coinciding with CupaDupa, New Zealand’s largest street festival, the event will take place at Mac’s Brew Bar and numbers are expected to fill up fast.
At their AGM on Saturday the 9th November, Blind and Low Vision NZ (formerly The Blind Foundation) appointed Wellington dispensing optician John Billings to its board.
The ACOD and Optiblocks New Zealand 2019 optical dispensing graduation ceremony was a well-attended and warm affair with lots of laughter and a few tears.
Dr Leo Sheck has joined the team at Retina Specialists.
It is very exciting to lead ADONZ into 2020 as their new president. ADONZ has certainly evolved compared to when I first joined the executive council six years ago. We have a more systematic approach to everything we do, which is linked to our strategic plan. Our network is stronger, we work closely
Professor Joanne Wood is the first woman to receive the International Optometrist of the Year Award. Prof Wood, from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Queensland University of Technology,
French start-up Lexilens was awarded Silmo’s Special Price Visual Health for its innovative reading aid eyewear for dyslexics.
Scientists at the University of Arizona have identified a potential molecular mechanism that may hold the key to understanding how pressure is regulated in the eye, potentially leading to future
