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Southern Eye Specialists provide regular Insights and Updates for our readers. These newsletters are valuable resources for New Zealand’s optometrists and GPs.
The Aotearoa Bike Challenge
SES put our best feet forward (and then around and around) in February and came second in the country in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge (50-199 staff category for all health organisations). It was a fantastic ride.
100 injections. 1 million sights.
Southern Eye patient Stuart celebrated 100 intravitreal injections recently, the big occasion marked with delicious cake, happy smiles, and great sights.
The eyebrow raiser
Found in Bald’s Leechbook, a medical text from the mid 10th century, the combination of garlic, leeks, and wine (along with the bile from a cow’s stomach) was said to be ideal for getting rid of styes. The four ingredients was carefully tested in 2015 to gauge whether there was any efficacy to the claim.
PRISM eyedrop study for Pterygium – Surfer’s Eye
We’re recruiting for a clinical trial investigating a potential new eyedrop for the treatment of pterygium (this is a wedge-shaped growth that extends onto the cornea of the eye).
4S Video – Why is my 6/6 patient unhappy? – Dr Rebecca Stack
In this Southern Eye Specialists seminar, Dr Rebecca Stack explores some of the issues patients experience after...
In the flash of an eye
A new study out of Trinity College in Dublin has revealed a notable variation in the speed humans ‘see’ moving images.
The Southern Northern sights
Marlborough, Tasman, and North Canterbury residents can expect greater support with their vision requirements after our recent acquisition of Graeme French Ophthalmology in Blenheim.
Clouded vision
One of the most common eye conditions in over 40s, cataracts are typically the result of the natural aging process. The good news is that removal is safe and effective – and one of the most common eye procedures performed in New Zealand.
Casting an eye over fish cataracts
“Recently I observed several trout in my favourite river that were unusually passive and had a very dark, almost black, skin colour.” SES patient Leonid Itskovich sharing this fascinating report with us.