Trends in corneal transplantation: beyond 2020

Corneal transplantation is indicated when corneal disease or injury results in the loss of shape (keratoconus) or clarity of the cornea, usually due to...

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...

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.

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...

Book review: Ryan’s Retina (seventh edition)

Ryan’s Retina (seventh edition) is edited by Professors SriniVas Sadda, Andrew Schachat, Charles Wilkinson, David Hinton, Peter Wiedemann, Bailey Freund...

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...

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...

CCLSNZ 2023 – this time, it’s personal

The Cornea and Contact Lens Society of New Zealand (CCLSNZ) hosted this year’s Corneal Contact Lens Conference at the Holiday Inn Auckland Airport. Bringing...

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,...

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...

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