A new organisation to promote the development and knowledge of scleral lenses, the Euro and Austral-Asian Scleral Lens Academy (EASLA), has been created...

I approached the sixth edition of Contact Lenses by Anthony Phillips and Lynne Speedwell with enthusiasm as some years ago I was a student when the fifth...

Queen’s Birthday Honours have been awarded to two prominent figures in the field of eye care. Auckland-based Professor Charles McGhee has been made an...

Now in its eleventh year, the Global Speciality Lens Symposium (GSLS), held annually in Las Vegas, is a unique conference focused on enabling eye care...

For anyone who has followed these specialty contact lens articles over time you will have noticed a conspicuous lack of mention of the dominant segment...

Last year, I gave an account of my personal sob-story of rampant myopia and discussed how modern day orthokeratology (ortho-k) contact lenses can be modified...

As contact lens fitters, too often we find ourselves fixated over obtaining the very best visual results for our patients. These days we can specify a...

Adjoining the consulting room of my specialty practice, Bay Eye Care, is an office shared by a clinical psychologist and a private psychiatrist. Fortunately,...

At the tender age of nine I developed a blinding eye disease. This bombshell was dropped on my world at my first eye examination in 1996. My optometrist...

As the guest writer for this issue’s speciality contact lens forum, I thought I would tackle a problem I have encountered a few times and feel may become...

In the annals of history there exists a number of important discoveries that were conceived over a few beers. Arthur Holmes and his colleagues developed...

Before we delve into our next case I should make it known that shortly after my last column was published in May I was summoned to an urgent meeting with...