An Australian study found the incidence of falls among over-65s decreased from an average 0.81 falls per year after first-eye cataract surgery to 0.32 falls per year after second-eye cataract
The winner of Haag-Streit’s slit lamp imaging competition is Utpal Sarkar from Disha Eye Hospitals Barrackpore in Kolkata, India with his image ‘Spherophakia’. Selected from 168 high-calibre
Virtual clinics for glaucoma care – patients’ and clinicians’ experiences and perceptions: a qualitative evaluation Gunn J, Marks J, Au L, et al Eye (2022) 36:209-218
After a nine-month wait, Auckland University’s School of Optometry and Vision Science (SOVS) class of 2021 finally celebrated their graduation.
One year into their partnership, insurance broker Crombie Lockwood and CMI Optical report a high conversion rate on quotes, saving practices a quarter of their previous premiums.
A multi-centre prospective trial of artificial intelligence (AI) platform Theia found it did not miss referable disease when screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR) and maculopathy.
Drs Baswati Sahoo and Shira Sheen have joined Eye Institute in Hawke’s Bay, doubling the local team.
Recently, in a first for Aotearoa, Dr Peter Hadden from Auckland’s Eye Institute removed a dense juvenile cataract from one eye of a struggling seven-year-old gentoo penguin named Cardi, who lives at Sea Life Kelly Tarlton’s in Auckland. Gentoos are very social and visual creatures, living up to aro
Independent Lens Specialists and Shamir recently toured four New Zealand cities to introduce its latest lens technology, Metaform, winner of the 2022 Silmo d’Or Vision category and described as a real 'revolution' in lens technology.
A year has passed since New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development (MSD) extended its Flexi-wage scheme to include support for jobseekers training to become qualified dispensing opticians (DOs). However, at the time of writing, not a single candidate has been hired as a DO nor trained through the
In the presence of health minister Andrew Little, Eye Health Aotearoa (EHA) handed over its petition to have the government fund a national eye health survey.
Australian dispensing optician, ophthalmic physicist and practice owner Grant Hannaford has been named IOA International Optician of the Year by the International Opticians Association (IOA) at Silmo in Paris.