Trying to spot the trends at this year’s Silmo in Paris, one of the largest optical fairs in the world, was a tough ask. Thin metals, especially in rose gold, abounded, but that’s the here and now; tomorrow remained elusive.
Iconic British Eyewear designer William Morris has launched the William Morris Gallery Eyewear Collection.
Researchers at Baylor University in Texas have developed a free app that can scan through smartphone photos to automatically detect signs of leukocoria in children.
Novartis’ brolucizumab (Beovu) has received FDA approval for the treatment of wet AMD, with the company claiming it is the first approved anti-VEGF drug to outperform aflibercept on fluid resolution, while offering similar vision gains on a three-month dosing schedule.
A new Australian $20 bank note has been designed with three raised nodes to allow people with low vision or blindness to be able to recognise it with ease.
Apple has approved the new oDocs Montage app created by Dr Sheng Chiong Hong and his innovative team, which doubles the field of vision on smartphone-based retinal imaging devices.
Silmo president Amélie Morel, a fourth-generation member of well-known, family-owned French eyewear company, Morel, and long-standing Silmo director Eric Lenoir welcomed representatives from the international media to the 2019 Silmo fair.
Ophthalmic Instrument Company (OIC) has become the New Zealand distributor for E-Swin’s eyecare range, including intense regulated pulsed light instruments for treatment of dry eye.
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) has chosen Australia as the host country for its 4th congress to be held in 2021, to run in partnership with O=Mega21 in Melbourne.
INDEPENDENT LENS SPECIALIST (ILS) has joined forces with Shamir New Zealand to offer not only its own, state-of-the-art full-service lens laboratory, but also Shamir's extended product range.
Waikato District Health Board (DHB) has come under fire in a report from the Office of the Auditor-General after a 21-month inquiry into its SmartHealth virtual care system failure.
Health Minister David Clark has announced the government is putting right a decade’s worth of underpayment to nurses, doctors and other health workers relating to the Holidays Act, with $550-650 million owed to staff.
