Meta Platforms has bought a minority stake in the world’s largest eyewear manufacturer, EssilorLuxottica, deepening the tech giant’s commitment to the smart glasses industry. The Facebook pare
WSPOS promotes repeated low-level red-light therapy in its latest Myopia Consensus Statement
Sophisticated optical style Lacoste L2311 is crafted from lightweight metal and boasts a classic modified rectangular front. The temples are embellished with a ribbon detail extending to the end pieces with an elegant green enamelled line. Positioned on the acetate temple tips, the Lacoste logo comp
A rare and grisly case of the autoimmune condition pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) was documented by Nelson Hospital’s Drs Garry Singh and Sacha Moore, and presented as a poster at the RANZCO NZ 2025.
iScribe, an artificial intelligence (AI) note-taking tool that converts patient conversations into clinical notes, referrer and patient letters, has gained 15-20% of the Australian ophthalmology market since its launch at the beginning of 2024, reported its parent company Akuru.
The only New Zealand meeting focused entirely on ocular therapeutics, the Ocular Therapeutics Conference (OTC), returns on 14 September for a day of translational research and practical learning. Re
Researchers in the Molecular Vision Research Cluster (MVRC) at the University of Auckland are calling for eyecare professionals to refer a specific cohort of patients for a study they hope will result in new treatments for cataract and presbyopia.
New Zealand’s coolest boutique vision conference, SnowViz (formerly Snowvision) returns 5–8 August 2026, organised by Ryan Lester, Francis Hassan, Richard Johnson, Grant Watters and Greg Nel. While
The end of the first phase of the Shared Digital Health Record (SDHR), intended to enhance and increase coverage of existing regional shared electronic health records (SEHRs), is now scheduled for Dec
Just two days after the Retinalogik AI-based virtual reality (VR) system reached New Zealand shores it was on display on Medix21’s stand at the RANZCO NZ 2025 conference, ready to wow eyecare professi
A world-first ultra-widefield eye imaging study in adults with Down syndrome found that abnormal blood vessels in the retinal periphery are visible before clinical symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease begi
Korean researchers found larger corneal hysteresis changes in patients with early-to-moderate open-angle glaucoma (OAG) indicate a higher risk of glaucoma progression in those with a history of laser
