Optician articles from April 2007

Optician archives from April 2007

News.(37th Mido exhibition )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Record Mido The 37th Mido exhibition (May 4-7) has confirmed a 14 per cent increase in exhibition space compared to the 2006 event. The fair in the new Fiera Milano complex in Rho-Pero will cover 52,500sqm and according to the...

Glaucomatocyclitic crisis.(News)
April 6, 2007... Posner-Schlossman syndrome DESCRIPTION Glaucomatocyclitic crisis is an acute secondary open-angle glaucoma, and refers to the association of glaucoma with cyclitis. Typically, there is a mild anterior uveitis associated with a marked...

Actman backs Peruvian trip.(P pages)
April 6, 2007... Andrew Actman Eyewear is donating 50 frames to an optometrist and senior nurse from Wirral-based Arrowe Park Hospital's ophthalmology department to use during a charitable trip to Peru this month. Optometrist Jasleen Jolly and her...

Is spherical compensation needed for uncorrected cylinders with a daily disposable toric?(News)
April 6, 2007... Sandra Windeck, Helmer Schweizer and Professor Peter Moest explore the influence of uncorrected cylinder on vision and how this may influence contact lens prescription The fact that soft toric prescribing rates have historically failed to...

News.(Alain Mikli's plans to grow)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Alain Mikli denied rumours that he is selling his company at a specially convened press conference at Vision Expo in New York on March 24. Mikli added that he plans to build an even bigger empire and create dialogue and capture attention...

P pages.
April 6, 2007... Carl Zeiss Vision's technical manager Alick Taylor is celebrating 50 years in optics. Taylor's career in optics began in the 1950s when he joined a London-based company called Raphael's and made tortoiseshell frames and surfaced lenses. Having...

News.(optical profession and industry awards)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... There are still places available at the presentation ceremony for the 2007 Optician Awards on the evening of Saturday April 21. Upto 500 of the great and good from the optical profession and industry are expected to pack the Palace Suite of...

Substitution clause is needed for Section 60.(News)
April 6, 2007... The GOC is to have a clause inserted in the Opticians Act to deal with brand substitution 'at the earliest opportunity', practitioners attending a BCLA meeting on the interpretation of the Section 60 laws, were told. The meeting which took...

The comfort zone.(Features)
April 6, 2007... Optician takes note of a new contact lens care range appearing on the UK market From November last year, a new range of contact lens care products appeared on the market in the UK. Manufactured by Avizor, the range of cleaning,...

Essential contact lens practice.(Features)
April 6, 2007... In the second part of our series covering aspects of contact lens practice, Jane Veys, John Meyler and Ian Davies review practical considerations for slit-lamp examination of the contact lens wearer. C6392, two contact lens points, suitable for...

Some day over the rainbow?(News)
April 6, 2007... * Congratulations to Ken Pullum for producing an intelligent, coherent article about funding the sight examination. Has this been read and absorbed by the AOP? Will they now ballot the members on this topic? Or is the head in the sandlet's...

A Specialist Club to remember.(Features)
April 6, 2007... Optician attends a particularly poignant CIBA Vision Specialist Club CET event The latest CET event organised by CIBA Vision's Specialist Club could so easily have been overshadowed by the recent untimely death of the company's...

Other.
April 6, 2007... If there is one topic guaranteed to create debate it is the issue of professional fees, state funding and voucher values. Optician is always keen to debate the pros and cons of the various parties' approaches to delivering eye care and to...

News.(Littleport councillor Fred Brown's investigation )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... A Littleport councillor who slapped a teenage boy around the face at an opticians has been cleared of committing common assault. Conservative councillor Fred Brown, who represents Littleport East on East Cambridgeshire District Council and sits...

News.
April 6, 2007... Dollond & Aitchison has been crowned winner of the Employer Award at the sixth annual Learners First Awards held by the National Employer Service (NES) last week at the Botanical Gardens, Birmingham. The NES, part of the Learning Skills...

Romanian project needs support.(Other)
April 6, 2007... * I am the UK optometric advisor to The Smiles Foundation, http://www.thesmilesfoundation.org/projects/VisionProject.html and have made several visits to Romania during the last three years to carry out basic eye examinations and provide free...

News.(Calendar)
April 6, 2007... 10 North London AOP, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Retinitis pigmentosa CET lecture (Steve Ross: 07768793454) 18 St James' Hospital, Yorkshire, What's new in surgical retina? (tim.hunter@leedsth.nhs.uk) 18 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow...

Features.
April 6, 2007... MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. In which of the following does the bio-microscope not play a role? a) Assessing corneal shape factor b) Assessing hard lens fitting characteristics c) Evaluating neovascularisation ...

News.(research on mountain sickness)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Two Malvern-based practitioners have this week travelled to Mount Everest to take part in a significant medical experiment. Optometrist Derek Styles (left) and Graeme Holland (right), owner of Holland Opticians, will be photographing the...

GOC removes 602 from the register.(Other)
April 6, 2007... by Perry Thakrar perry.thakrar@rbi.co.uk A total of 602 registrants have been removed from the GOC register along with 50 bodies corporate. Of the 267 optometrists and 335 dispensing opticians erased, 319 were removed for failure...

Registrants to benefit from pro-rata scheme.(News)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The GOC has announced that as of April 1 2007, newly qualified optometrists and dispensing opticians will benefit from a pro-rata policy on registration fees. Under the revised fees rules, approved by the Council in November 2006, student...

News.(Haine & Smith's new headquarters )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Rt Hon Michael Ancram QC MP visited Pewsey last week to officially open the Haine & Smith headquarters at Salisbury Road Business Park. Haine & Smith relocated its laboratory 'Kennet Optical' as well as its head office, accounts and IT...

Features.(Fiona Molloy's preparation for swimming contest)
April 6, 2007... Ironman Update [intro] Fiona Molloy is the British member of the Oakley Transitions team taking part in the gruelling Monaco Iroman event this September. Chris Bennett caught up with her one month into her training. Molloy is the...

Stepping up the effort.(Features)(Fiona Molloy's preparation for swimming contest)
April 6, 2007... Fiona Molloy is the British member of the Oakley Transitions' team taking part in the gruelling Monaco Ironman event this September. Chris Bennett caught up with her a month into her training Fiona Molloy is the would-be Ironwoman who has...

On the road again.(Features)
April 6, 2007... Johnson & Johnson Vision Care ran a series of well-attended CET events around the UK last month. Optician reports from the Manchester event The very fact that this run of CET seminars was so quickly booked up bears testimony to the...

P pages.(Joanne Benfield celebrates 15th year with Edmonds and Slatter)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Dispensing optician Joanne Benfield has recently celebrated her 15th year with Leicestershire-based opticians Edmonds and Slatter. Benfold, who joined the group in 1992 and works at the group's Blaby practice, was presented with a bouquet of...

P pages.
April 6, 2007... Richard Yorke will be putting Kodak UVSun polarised lenses to the test when he takes part in the 2007 Polar Challenge 350 mile team race in the Arctic to the Magnetic North Pole at the end of the month. Team Star aim to raise over [pounds...

News.(B.B.G.R. and Rupp + Hubrach's round the world trip )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... BBGR and Rupp + Hubrach are offering a 'Round the World' trip for two to coincide with the Optrafair launch of the progressive lens Anateo, designed with attention to the anatomy of the ocular globe. Visitors to stand D50/E50 will be invited...

News.
April 6, 2007... Since my letter to Optician (March 2), my PCT seem ever more determined to scupper my 'grandfathering' arrangements. They reluctantly conceded the point that a 'grandfather' is not clinically responsible for all the eye tests carried at my...

News.(37th mido exhibition)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The 37th Mido exhibition (May 4-7) has confirmed a 14 per cent increase in exhibition space compared to the 2006 event. The fair in the new Fieramilano complex in Rho-Pero will cover 52,500sqm and according to the organisers is shows the...

Back to the future.(Features)
April 6, 2007... Abba were top of the singles charts and flares were in fashion when Alison Ewbank first went to Moorfields as a pre-reg student. Now 30 years on, she pays a visit to the newly opened Children's Eye Centre and finds that much has changed at the...

News.
April 6, 2007... More than 15,000 visitors from around the world last month descended on New York City for the 21st International Vision Expo East. The Jacob Javits Centre hosted more than 500 exhibitors split between five main areas - lens technology, contact...

News.(colour changing sunglasses)(Menicon Company Ltd.'s new hydrogel lenses)(Trans-Global Sports won the new exporter of the year award)
April 6, 2007... Sunglasses that change colour at the touch of a button are being developed by scientists at the University of Washington, Seattle, using smart plastics that change colour when an electric current flows through them. Researcher Chunye Xu said...

News.
April 6, 2007... Nikon Optical has launched a new website which provides useful information for consumers and professionals plus a Nikon eye care professional store locater. The company said these professionals are best positioned to communicate the benefits of...

Cohn calls it a day at IOO.(P pages)(retirement of Norbert Cohn from Institute of Optometry )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Optometrist Norbert Cohn has celebrated an incredible 63 years of service at the Institute of Optometry (IOO). Cohn, who hung up his retinoscope at the end of March, joined the IOO, then the London Refraction Hospital in 1944, predating the...

OGS launches giving plan.(News)(Optometry Giving Sight)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Optometry Giving Sight is encouraging practitioners to sign up to its Practice Giving Programme at Optrafair. The concept behind the programme is for participating practices to raise funds for the charity and invite their patients to match...

OcucoRelcon offers Rx help.(P pages)
April 6, 2007... OcucoRelcon and US optical lab software vendor CC Systems have produced a universal lens catalogue for the UK and Ireland to offer electronic ordering capabilities between optical retailers and their suppliers. OcucoRelcon practice management...

News.
April 6, 2007... Listening to the General Optical Council debating its future structure following the publication of the Government White Paper on the future of regulation for the health care professions brought to mind a number of metaphors including turkeys...

News.(optrafair)(special offers for visitors)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Optician will have some special offers on stand C60 at Optrafair. Visitors will receive a goody bag containing money-off vouchers and free gifts. There is also the opportunity to enter a prize draw to win a Nikon Coolpix S7C digital camera and...

Mondottica to produce Pepe eyewear.(P pages)
April 6, 2007... Mondottica has signed a licence agreement with Pepe Jeans London to design and distribute its new eyewear range of frames and sunglasses. The jeans company was founded in 1973 and is now established as a world-leading fashion brand, its...

News.(RNIB campaign for blind students)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Over 250 blind, partially sighted and dyslexic children and their parents lobbied their MP at Westminster last week about the need to get more books in large print, audio and braille. Speakers included Annette Brooke MP, liberal democrat...

Record year for Safilo.(News)
April 6, 2007... The Safilo Group has reported a 10-fold increase in profit at [euro]37.5m for the financial year 2006 over 2005. The Group's consolidated turnover at [euro]1,122m was up 9.4 per cent and was highest in Safilo's history, with results up 15.2...

Is spherical compensation needed for uncorrected cylinders with a daily disposable toric?(Features)
April 6, 2007... Sandra Windeck, Helmer Schweizer and Professor Peter Moest look at the influence of uncorrected cylinder on vision and how this may influence trial lens selection The fact that soft toric prescribing rates have historically failed to...

News.
April 6, 2007... Fiona Molloy, the UK team member of the Oakley Transitions Ironman Team, became Fiona Bosher on the eve of the latest training camp in Fuerteventura. Fiona and hubby, Darren, moved their wedding forward by a day so Fiona could take part in the...

News.(Visioncare Eye Clinic has been named as best uk family business for london region)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... The Visioncare Eye Clinic in Harrow was named Best UK family business for the London region in the [pounds sterling]1m-5m turnover category of the Coutts 2006 prize for family business and will compete at the national finals on June 6. Founded...

Unconvinced by Ken.(Other)(Ken Pullum)(Trevor Warburton of Association of Optometrists)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... * Ken Pullum makes an argument (Optician, March 30) that the voucherisation of NHS sight tests would be of benefit to some practices, although it is by no means clear that this would be of benefit to all practices. He explains what he wants,...

Mikli to grow.(News)(Alain Mikli)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Alain Mikli denied rumours that he is selling his company at a specially convened press conference at Vision Expo East in New York on March 24. Mikli added that he plans to build an even bigger empire and capture attention with provocative...

Practitioner faces hearing.(News)(General Optical Council)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... A GOC fitness to practise hearing for Martyn Carl Allen will take place on April 17 in London. The Council alleges that Allen is guilty of 'deficient professional performance', because between March 12 1999 and August 2004 he did not...

News.(research on colour perception )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Human colour vision perception may have developed very rapidly after an evolutionary mutation, new research suggests. Mice, which have just two types of colour photoreceptor, have been bred with a third. These mice responded instantly in...

New glaucoma syndrome suspected.(News)
April 6, 2007... A new glaucoma like syndrome associated with myopia has been suspected as a cause of sight loss among a Chinese population sample. A 7 year follow up of 16 under 40 year olds, all with progressive myopia and glaucoma-like field loss, showed...

News.
April 6, 2007... The White Paper 'Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century' was published last month along with its intent to bolster public confidence in a beleaguered medical profession hit by a series of...

News.
April 6, 2007... Luxottica has acquired South Africa's 'most important' sunglass chains with 65 stores. At the beginning of March, the Group acquired 42 Sunglass World stores and these will now be joined by 23 Occhiali for Sunglasses stores. The 65 new outlets...

News.(Vision Express's new store)(BBGR and Rupp+Hubrach's round the world trip)(causes of sight loss)
April 6, 2007... Tutors Frank Eperjesi and Nick Sheen have accredited 25 Hereford optometrists to the new PCT GP referral scheme. Representing Hereford LOC, Peter Bishop said he was gratified by the turnout. 'My colleagues gave up a day in practice and queued...

News.
April 6, 2007... Carl Zeiss Vision's technical manager Alick Taylor is celebrating 50 years in optics. Taylor joined London-based Raphael's in the 1950s, making tortoiseshell frames and surfacing lenses. He studied lenses at night school, completed National...

P pages.(appointment of John King at Shamir UK)(promotion of Ron Wright at Weco UK)(appointment of Les Watkin at Rodenstock (UK) Ltd.)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... * John King has joined progressive lens specialist Shamir UK as a regional lens consultant. King, 36, has enjoyed a long career in optics working with Signet, Hoya and Sinclair Optical Services. Shamir UK managing director Nick Browning...

Highland trek assists the RNIB.(P pages)(Optical Express's David Bolton and Gordon McAskill )(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Optical Express employees David Bolton and Gordon McAskill last week walked from Fort William to a point located 95 miles outside Glasgow city centre in just three days to raise funds for the RNIB. The duo averaged 30 miles a day on the...

Glaucoma drug trial.(News)
April 6, 2007... Pfizer has begun the first in a series of clinical trials for a new experimental drug for the treatment of glaucoma, according to a statement from development partner NicOx. The initiation of the trial follows the granting of an...

Michael Rawling.(death of Michael Rawling )(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Croydon optometrist Michael Rawling died on January 31 2007 from a blood disease. Rawling worked for his family firm Rawling & Sons (Opticians) in Croydon, Surrey most of his life and was heavily involved in the Worshipful Company of...

Optics remembers Janet Helen Silver.(News)
April 6, 2007... Daniel P Ehrlich, head of optometry at Moorfields Eye Hospital, has paid tribute to Janet Helen Silver OBE, former principal optometrist at the hospital, who died on March 25, aged 73. Silver joined Moorfields in 1964 and after reluctantly...

Practitioner faces charges.(News)(Carol Ann Sinclair)(The General Optical Council)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... A GOC fitness to practise hearing for Carol Ann Sinclair will take place on April 17 after being deemed 'guilty of deficient professional performance' by the Council. The Council alleges that Sinclair's fitness to practise was impaired...

News.(Transitions Optical Inc. advertisement contract with Nicky Hambleton-Jones)(Brief article)
April 6, 2007... Star of Channel 4 show 10 Years Younger, Nicky Hambleton-Jones has been appointed as the new face of Transitions lenses. Renowned as a style icon and inspiration to spectacle wearers nationwide, Hambleton-Jones was the natural choice to...

Gyrate atrophy.(News)
April 13, 2007... DESCRIPTION Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina is a rare metabolic chorioretinal dystrophy that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. It is bilateral and slowly progressive, commencing as a mid-peripheral atrophy of choroidal...

Eyes on the Prize.(P pages)(marketing of Advanced Medical Optics)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) and blink eye drops have presented the winner of their Eyes on the Prize winter ski holiday campaign, Steve Randall from Reading, with a [pounds sterling]2,000 ski holiday voucher. AMO would like to thank all...

Lens given online presence.(P pages)(www.anateo.co.uk)(BBGR)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... BBGR has launched a new website to coincide with the launch of its new progressive lens Anateo. BBGR IT manager Dave Morgan said: 'The fact that Anateo has its own website underlines the high profile of the lens in our product portfolio....

News.
April 13, 2007... Entrants to the Optician Awards are being given a few extra days to make their bid for recognition and reward. The deadline for entries has been moved back to February 27 to allow participants to get their entries in. This will be the final...

Inspired event.(News)(British Contact Lens Association )(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... The BCLA expects top international speakers to draw record numbers to its clinical conference and exhibition from May 31-June 3. Around 675 delegates have so far registered for the conference in Manchester. The scientific programme offers a...

Complaints needed for GOC prosecution.(News)
April 13, 2007... by Perry Thakrar perry.thakrar@rbi.co.uk Unregistered sellers of plano lenses will continue to escape prosecution unless optometrists encourage members of the public to file formal complaints with supporting evidence, the GOC has...

Features.(information of focimeter)
April 13, 2007... A focimeter is an instrument used to measure vertex powers and prismatic effects of spectacles and contact lenses, to orientate and mark uncut lenses, and to verify the correct mounting of lenses in spectacle frames. A BRIEF HISTORY ...

A question of colour.(Features)(information of eyeglass lenses)
April 13, 2007... In the latest of her series on calculations in practice, Janet Carlton considers chromatic aberration Lens designers are often concerned with aberrations and how to remove them from spectacle lenses. But many patients are either unaware...

Comparative advantage.(News)(interview with Douglas Anderson)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... Optometrists in the UK frustrated by low NHS remuneration and increasing competition on eyewear would not have found Monday's The Times particularly encouraging reading. In an interview with Optos founder Douglas Anderson, UK OOs are...

News.(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... A Littleport councillor who slapped a teenage boy around the face at an opticians has been cleared of committing common assault. Conservative councillor Fred Brown, who represents Littleport East on East Cambridgeshire District Council and sits...

News.(calendar about optical seminars)(Brief article)(Calendar)
April 13, 2007... 18 St James' Hospital, Yorkshire, What's new in surgical retina? (tim.hunter@leedsth.nhs.uk) 18 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow LOC with Moorfields, Middlesex, Cataract surgery update (020 8567 8707) 21-23Optrafair 2007, Birmingham...

Fighting talk for independents.(News)(Letter to the editor)
April 13, 2007... * While I don't normally bother with anonymous communication, I am moved to address the comments made in the letter 'A practice fit for patients' (Optician, March 30). My co-director Nick Atkins and I established Independents Day three...

The Haag-Streit IM900 - human proof image capture.(Features)
April 13, 2007... Bill Harvey tries out the latest slit-lamp imaging system from Haag-Streit and is impressed by its latest history trigger utility 'Ok, just stare straight ahead. Hold it. Hold it. And'click (See Figure 1). The number of times the image...

Trigger happy.(Features)
April 13, 2007... Bill Harvey tries out the latest slit-lamp imaging system from Haag-Streit and is impressed by its novel history trigger function Just stare straight ahead. Hold it! Hold it! And' click! (Figure 1). The number of times the system captures a...

Don't forget your toothbrush.(News)
April 13, 2007... Rodenstock's new managing director, Keith Carnes, has arrived hotfoot from Gillette but has more than experience of male grooming products to bring to optics, writes Chris Bennett Keith Carnes, the new managing director at Rodenstock is a...

VAO wins backing for Optrafair promotion.(P pages)
April 13, 2007... Kodak Lens UK is sponsoring Vision Aid Overseas [pounds sterling]4,000 to exhibit at Optrafair and publicise its work in the developing world. Kodak Lens head of marketing Mark Ireland said: 'We believe it is important that Vision Aid...

P pages.(Lafont )(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... Lafont celebrated 20 years of business in the USA at the New York trade show Vision Expo (March 23-25). The North American market represents 30 per cent of the french company's sales. Lafont created visuals, 20 banners, each representing the...

Warning over MRSA cases.(News)
April 13, 2007... For the first time refractive surgery has been linked to a risk of developing MRSA keratitis, a study in the April edition of the American Journal of Ophthalmogy has revealed. Researchers found MRSA infections in the eyes of 12 patients...

P pages.(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... The 37th Mido exhibition (May 4-7) has confirmed a 14 per cent increase in exhibition space compared to the 2006 event. The fair in the new Fieramilano complex in Rho-Pero will cover 52,500sqm and according to the organisers is shows the...

Features.
April 13, 2007... Last week I received notification from my local optometric committee of the annual general meeting. Undoubtedly, most people reading this column will have received something similar recently. The question is what have you done with yours? Do...

PHN plans public site.(News)(Primary Health Net)(www.mylocaloptician.co.uk)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... A new public information site on eye care and eyewear, www.mylocaloptician.co.uk, will be launched at Optrafair by LOC website provider Primary Health Net. The launch of the site that aims to connect the public to optical practices, aided...

P pages.(Mykita opens new store)(Brief article)
April 13, 2007... German frame company Mykita is opening its first dedicated store in the heart of Berlin and just two blocks from its headquarters. The outlet will carry the complete range of Mykita collections plus selected lines from connected brands. The...

News.
April 13, 2007... Changing shades Sunglasses that change colour at the touch of a button are being developed by scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle, using smart plastics that change colour when an electric current flows through them....