Hailey Richardson and Anna-Mary Carroll have joined Specsavers’ dispensing advancement team to help Specsavers’ dispensing opticians make the most of the company’s professional development opportunities.
The BCLA conference medal address was awarded to Professor Lyndon Jones, director of the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) at the University of Waterloo in Canada, a University of Auckland collaborator and contributor to NZ Optics.
The University of Melbourne and University of Auckland are collaborating to find out more about the use of omega-3 essential fatty acids by optometrists in practice, and they need your help.
Low cost megastore Costco is coming to Auckland and its optometry arm is too. Costco Optical will be part of the US bulk retail giant’s first foray into New Zealand, with an in-house optometry practice planned as part of the chosen warehouse site in West Auckland.
The research and development team behind Coopervision’s MiSight 1 Day myopia-controlling contact lens have been honoured with a 2019 British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) Industry Award.
The Ocular Research By Integrated Training And Learning (ORBITAL) project will bring academics, industry, clinicians, patient advocacy groups and hospitals together from September to create
The annual Glaucoma New Zealand Symposium is taking place on Sunday 18 August at Alexandra Park in Auckland.
Canadian researchers have urged patients to exercise caution if depending on online symptom checkers to self-diagnosis ophthalmic conditions. In their study, the researchers said they found the top
A new drug for the treatment of atrophic age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Stargardt disease, an inherited juvenile form of macular degeneration, has been given US Food and Drug
This year’s winner of the H Barry Collin Research Medal, Professor Erica Fletcher, is only the second woman to receive the award in its 41-year history. The Melbourne-based optometrist and
Subtitled specs have been developed by researchers at Auckland Bioengineering Institute to allow hearing-impaired people to watch any movie at any cinema and never miss a word.The Vivify headset,
The International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) has celebrated 40 years of ‘exceptional education and exponential impact’ at the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) clinical
