COVID-19: Private hospital on standby to ease public surgical burden
Cairns Private Hospital has offered to perform public elective surgeries, including ophthalmic procedures, to ensure the region’s main public health ...
Tag: ophthalmology
Eye filler therapy shows promise with corneal blindness
Scientists have developed an injectable biosynthetic ‘glue filler’ that repairs corneal perforations, potentially removing the need for corneal donations and ...
National survey sheds new light on ophthalmology training
Ophthalmology trainees have indicated a high rate of satisfaction with their Vocational Training Program, according to the results of Australia’s ...
Chinese ophthalmologist and coronavirus whistle-blower dies
An ophthalmologist who Chinese authorities attempted to silence during the initial stages of the coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting ...
Australia-first eye clinic for Indigenous patients
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH) has joined forces with the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) to launch ...
Ophthalmology Updates! 2019 – Part 1
Returning for its fourth year, the 2019 Ophthalmology Updates! Conference was the series’ biggest event yet. In the first of ...
IOLs: Bringing the presbyope into focus
As intraocular lenses continue to improve, their popularity is increasing among a variety of patients – even those who don’t ...
New Specsavers report shows impact of eye health strategies
Specsavers’ latest snapshot into Australian eye health has revealed referrals for eye disease are soaring to unprecedented levels thanks to ...
Perth partnership targets childhood blindness and $1 billion market
The Lions Eye Institute (LEI) has signed a commercial partnership that will combine its antisense gene therapy for a leading cause of ...
Aussie researchers put Zeiss SITA algorithms under the microscope
Australian research comparing Carl Zeiss’ SITA-Standard and SITA-Faster algorithms has concluded the latter saves time and is just as accurate ...