Ophthalmology News
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...
RANZCO Vision 2030: providing better vision care in Aotearoa
New Zealand’s eyecare world and everyone else who cares about the eye health of New Zealanders are being urged to review and contribute to the Royal Australian...
News from ARVO 2023
The 2023 five-day Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) conference was held in New Orleans, bringing many ophthalmic researchers...
Post-surgery opioids ‘over-prescribed’ in NZ
New Zealand’s healthcare providers are over-prescribing opioids to patients post-surgery, potentially fuelling addiction, a new study has found.
Stars and their eyes… Rick Wakeman
British keyboardist for 1970s rockers Yes and David Bowie, Rick Wakeman recently admitted his many health woes now include macular generation in his left...
CCLS webinar: cosmetic considerations
The Cornea and Contact Lens Society (CCLS) is hosting a webinar on the impact of cosmetics on the ocular surface on Wednesday 7 June at 7.30pm NZ standard...
Astellas acquires Iveric for US$5.9bn
Astellas Pharma has acquired Iveric Bio for US$5.9bn, to further its goal of becoming a world-class ophthalmology entity with a focus on blindness and...
MIGS safe in POAG myopes
A study of Allergan’s Xen45 minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) implant concluded it was safe and effective in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG)...
CORE: Insights on biometry in myopia management
Addressing the rapidly-evolving importance of biometry in myopia management, the Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) has dedicated Issue 71 of...
Presbyopia drops’ trial success
Visus Therapeutics announced Brimochol PF, its preservative-free ophthalmic solution for the treatment of presbyopia, met its primary and secondary endpoints...
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...
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...
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