Therapeutic contact lenses and patients’ own stem cells have been used to restore sight by rehabilitation of damaged eye surfaces by researchers and surgeons at the University of New South Wales’ School of Medical Sciences and the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney.
Insight
June 2009 Contents
RANZCO chiefs reject 50% cut to Medicare cataract benefit
The president and vice-president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists have both rejected the 50-per-cent cut to the Medicare benefit for cataract surgery. Click
on 'June 2009' for complete story. (top left)
Microsoft’s $6.5m grant for Vision Australia’s blind services
Microsoft Australia has made a $6.5-million donation to Vision Australia, valued by Microsoft as equivalent to the standard US retail value of the software concerned. Click
on 'June 2009' for complete story. (top left)
Luxottica funding two $30,000 indigenous scholarships at UNSW
Luxottica is funding two $30,000 scholarships over five years to fund the ‘Luxottica Indigenous Scholarship in Optometry and Vision Science’. Click
on 'June 2009' for complete story. (top left)
Specsavers sold 438,000 pairs of spectacles last year
Specsavers Optometrists sold 438,000 pairs of spectacles on an annualised basis and expects to sell one million pairs this year.Click
on 'June 2009' for complete story. (top left)
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