Lifestyle costs to our ocular surface

“Flight NZ29 is ready to board at Gate 4…” I’m in transit in Houston Airport, returning from my first in-person attendance in four years at the Association...

Will you pop the red pill?

Early on in secondary school, my English teacher announced to the class that he’d decided which movie we were going to study that year. With bated breath...

Putting kids in the frame

Since motherhood, I’ve been paying more and more attention to kids' glasses. Not that my children need them (yet), but some of their friends do and my...

Natural remedies: feast for the eyes or recipe for disaster?

Not long ago, award-winning Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri shared her family’s dry-eye disease (DED) remedy of onion vapour and honey. Onion enzymes...

Retina research review - Geographic atrophy and diabetic retinopathy

Complement C3 inhibitor pegcetacoplan for geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration (FILLY trial)DS Liao et alOphthalmology. Feb...

AMD-grading AI boost

A New Zealand-developed artificial intelligence (AI) system has been shown to grade advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) from retinal images...

Custom eyewear: a personalised approach

The development of glasses as a common treatment for imperfect eyesight has taken centuries, yet today it’s estimated that 75% of the US adult population...

The psychological effects of glaucoma and vision loss

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), standard indicators of quality of life (QoL) include physical wellbeing, psychological and mental wellbeing,...

House of medicine culture – why it matters

Culture is vital in medicine, for the individual health professional, the wider medical community and ultimately for patients, said Professor Eve Higginbotham...

BOOK REVIEW: The Ophthalmic Assistant: a text for allied and associated ophthalmic personnel

The Ophthalmic Assistant: a text for allied and associated ophthalmic personnel is a comprehensive and detailed textbook and reference tool for those...

Paediatric ophthalmology research review

The risk of uveitis due to prostaglandin analogues in paediatric glaucoma

Seriously, though…

There doesn't seem much point in bluffing it these days – the audience is a bit more limited and most of my mob know the script. It’s a shame, as I quite...

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