A University of Manchester initiative which engages its students’ healthcare improvement work in hard to reach communities in the UK and beyond has come third in a prestigious international prize for global citizenship.The Humanising Healthcare programme gives dentistry, pharmacy and optometry students the chance to deliver healthcare and health.
Dr. Robert Bentley is a Portland ophthalmologist with more than 30 years of experience.
As a physician and practicing ophthalmological eye surgeon with more than 33 years of clinical experience, I ll be among the first to tell you how important a different profession, that of optometry, is for overall eye health care. Optometrists perform valuable services, including routine eye exams and prescriptions for eyeglasses and contacts.
But optometrists are not medical doctors; they are not physicians. They do not have years of medical school education and post-med school residency or surgical training. Nor do optometrists have the direct clinical experience that helps ophthalmologists like me manage and avoid difficult, or even life-threatening, patient safety situations.
A better qPCR pipetting experience with VIAFLO electronic pipettes
INTEGRA Biosciences’ VIAFLO electronic pipettes are making qPCR plate preparation the straightforward process it should be for researchers in the Saint-Geniez lab at Harvard Medical School.
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Preparation of qPCR plates is a repetitive, time-consuming task when done manually, and having the right pipettes makes all the difference. Postdoctoral researcher Daisy Shu explained: “After graduating in optometry, I moved into research, studying cataracts – clouding of the lens – for my PhD at the University of Sydney before taking up my present position in Boston, where I’m working on age-related macular degeneration.”
Tauranga optometrists give almost century-old Rotorua CBD building new lease of life
10 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
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Blur Eyecare sets up business in Rotorua
Two Tauranga business owners have taken over an iconic almost century-old building in the Rotorua CBD to bring their specialist optometry business to the city. The building at 1202 Pukaki St was built in 1927 and had become a well-known and standout building on the commercial street.
Over the years, it had been a residential house, a dental practice, an insurance broker and the electorate office of former Waiariki MP Tāmati Coffey.
Now Stu Laing and Haidee Mannix, owners of Blur Eyecare, bought it for a price in the $500,000 range to give it a facelift and a new lease of life rather than bowl down the piece of local history.