An international collaboration of scientists has created a contact lens (CL) which can shift between magnified and normal vision. The lens, which increases peripheral vision three-fold, is safer and
Shamir has opened a new fitting lab and service centre near Sylvia Park shopping precinct in the Mt Wellington area in Auckland.
The optometrists and dispensing opticians board (ODOB) is currently consulting on the revocation of the accreditation of the ‘Certificate IV in Optical Dispensing’ course offered by OTEN/TAFE in New South Wales after OTEN failed to provide additional material requested for its accreditation. If the
A change of mind at the last moment has saved budding New Zealand dispensing opticians from having to share textbooks this year, at least in the short-term.
A New Zealand optometrist has been found guilty of breaching the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights for not providing an adequate level of care and skill for a six-year-old boy, later diagnosed with a brain tumour which left him blind in one eye and partially sighted in the oth
Health tech company Jayex Healthcare has signed an exclusive worldwide ‘Solution Provider Agreement’ with OptomEdge, the optometry division of the Queensland-based marketing and technology services provider, Valued Patient Group, and preferred online marketing support supplier for Kiwi-based indepen
Luxottica’s OPSM and Australian-based sister company Laubman & Pank have employed 100 optometry graduates to fill positions across Australia and New Zealand, doubling the number employed in 2017.
Revision Optics, manufacturer of the Raindrop implantable corneal device for correction of near vision, the first FDA-approved device that changes the shape of the cornea to correct vision, has closed down.
Engineering science professor Marinko Sarunic from Simon Fraser University, Canada has developed a new, shoebox-sized, retinal imaging scanner, that can still produce high-resolution, 3-D, cross-sectional retina, including individual photoreceptors, fine capillaries and blood vessels.
A review of emergency department visits across Australia in 2016-17 reveals that almost 120,000 people presented for eye conditions, of which just over 19,640 were considered non-urgent. While Optometry Australia, the peak professional body for optometrists, is concerned with the amount of people se
US filmmaker Jane Weiner is working on a documentary about myopia entitled ‘Losing Sight’, scheduled for release in 2020.
A new portable brain-computer interface, nGoggle, is proving promising for assessing visual function loss in glaucoma patients, said co-inventor Professor Felipe Medeiros from Duke University, North Carolina in an article in Ophthalmology Times.
