Ophthalmology Features
The Joy of Piracy
As a kid, events before you were born, even just one or two decades earlier, lie in an unimaginably distant past. For me, the Second World War was that...
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...
Hard graft at the 2023 ANZ Cornea Society meeting
I was privileged to attend the 38th ANZ Cornea Society and Eye Bank Meeting in Perth, the first in-person meeting since 2020, together with New Zealand’s...
SPONSORED: The rise of intraoperative OCT
iOCT technology is integrated into the surgical microscope and provides high-resolution cross-sectional images of ocular tissues, even transparent structures,...
Optic disc pit with maculopathy
A 58-year-old male with no underlying medical history was referred for retinal oedema adjacent to the optic nerve head with cystic changes and a shiny...
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...
Waiting for pseudophakia: an insider’s view of cataract surgery
We all know cataract surgery is no big deal. We refer patients all the time, reassuring them, reappraising them and sharing their delight when it all goes...
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,...
Unravelling the mystery of corneal peripheral thinning disorders
The anatomy of the peripheral cornea and its proximity to the vascular limbus makes it prone to a unique set of diseases, primarily immune-mediated ones.
Managing homonymous hemianopia
The Canterbury Low Vision Clinic at Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, is a centre of excellence for the rehabilitation of people with various debilitating...
OTC 2023: drops, shots and supplements
It was exciting to see fellow optometrists and ophthalmologists catching up with each other at this year’s Ocular Therapeutics Conference at the University...
Riding the wave of uncertainty
The war in Ukraine, volatile European markets and currencies and challenges across China’s political and economic landscape are just some of the issues...
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