- Philippe Starck, Moscot and beausoleil ranges in store now!
- Apr 23, 2011
- Eyescan Toorak official opening February 11th 2010.
Professor Hugh Taylor and invited guests. - Feb 14, 2010
- Eyescan Toorak opens December 21st 2009!
Dr Harry Unger and Dr Jack Goldberg. - Dec 22, 2009
- Eyescan's Professor Hugh Taylor receives Vision Research award. - May 05, 2009
- Eyescan explains how early detection of macula degeneration is crucial. - Jun 13, 2009
- Australian Plane travellers back fingerprint, eye scan checks. Can eyescanning be the future of plane travel? - Dec 20, 2008
- Eyescan soon to move to larger premises! - Aug 04, 2009
- Eyescan's Professor Hugh R Taylor writes about how "A dreadful disease is finally tackled" - Mar 04, 2009
- Eyescan's New Chadstone store now open! Right next to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts - Feb 02, 2009
- Eyescan's Tien Wong wins Minister's award for excellence - Dec 14, 2008
- Eyes Can Be The Portal To A Person's Health. Eyescan tells of new eye test results that can save the lives and limbs of diabetics. - Feb 14, 2008
Philippe Starck, Moscot and beausoleil ranges in store now!
Apr 23, 2011
Fabulous hand-made frames from France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria to 'see well and look good' at Eyescan Toorak.
Australia's first true one-stop shop combining ophthalmology, optometry, optical dispensing and the latest high-technology eye imaging equipment.
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Eyescan Toorak official opening February 11th 2010.
Professor Hugh Taylor and invited guests.
Feb 14, 2010
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Eyescan Toorak opens December 21st 2009!
Dr Harry Unger and Dr Jack Goldberg.
Dec 22, 2009
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Eyescan's Professor Hugh Taylor receives Vision Research award.
May 05, 2009
Eyescan's Professor Hugh Taylor receives Vision Research Award.
A Melbourne-based professor will be the first Australian to be awarded the internationally renowned Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research. Professor Hugh Taylor, who is Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne, will be recognised at a ceremony in the United States today for his 30 years work in the field.
The prize's 17 previous recipients include two Nobel Laureates and two Lasker Award winners and comes with a $US30,000 ($AU42,400) cheque. Professor Taylor, a former student, then close friend and colleague of the late Fred Hollows, has focussed primarily on public health aspects of eye disease, including initiatives to treat trachoma and river blindness in developing countries.
He is now undertaking Australia's first comprehensive National Survey of Indigenous Eye Health. Prof Taylor is also vice president of a global body of non-government and professional groups, which is working to rid the world's poorest nations of preventable blindness by 2020.
The award will be presented by Helen Keller's great-grand niece at a ceremony in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Prof Taylor says as a baby he met Keller, the acclaimed US author and activist who was also deaf and blind, when she visited Australia in the late 1940s.
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Eyescan explains how early detection of macula degeneration is crucial.
Jun 13, 2009
Eyescan explain Macular Degeneration
Macular Degeneration is an age related condition that can result in the loss of fine detailed central vision. The vision already lost cannot be restored. In some cases ocular injections can be used as a treatment to retain and protect your vision from further loss.
Find out more about macular degeneration
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Australian Plane travellers back fingerprint, eye scan checks. Can eyescanning be the future of plane travel?
Dec 20, 2008
Registered flight passenger cards with in-built fingerprint or iris scan technology could be introduced nationwide following a review of Australia's National Aviation Policy.
Unisys Asia-Pacific spokeswoman Jane Evans said registered traveller cards would eliminate security breaches similar to those which forced two mass evacuations of Brisbane's domestic airport in less than a week.
Ms Evans said biometric technology, already incorporated into passport photographs to identify flight passengers based upon fixed facial measurements, was currently in use at airports in the United States.
Registered traveller cards, called rtGO cards, permit frequent flyers to obtain a biometric credential, Ms Evans said, meaning a passenger's basic identification information - including scans of their fingerprint and iris - are digitally recorded on the rtGO card.
"Passengers are then able to navigate airport security checkpoints more efficiently without compromising security standards," Ms Evans said.
Ms Evans said she believed Australian airline passengers would also be in favour of such a card.
A survey by Unisys late last year found about 98 per cent of respondents believed more needed to be done to make domestic air travel safer. In addition, 71 per cent would be prepared to provide airlines with a fingerprint or other biometric information.
More than half of the Australian population would also be prepared to pay a higher ticket price if it was required to finance tangible security enhancements on domestic travel, the survey found.
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Eyescan soon to move to larger premises!
Aug 04, 2009
Eyescan will soon relocate to bigger and better premises, and will include onsite ophthalmology services! Stand by for updates as we prepare to launch a new concept in eyecare! Ophthalmology, optometry and optical dispensing services, all from one location.
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Eyescan's Professor Hugh R Taylor writes about how "A dreadful disease is finally tackled"
Mar 04, 2009
Real commitment to eliminating trachoma has been a long time coming.
Despite improvements in other areas of health, the incidence of trachoma in Aboriginal communities remains as staggeringly high as it was 30 years ago. Australia is the only developed country where this blinding disease still exists. Finally, the Government has announced action to eliminate it from Aboriginal communities.
Trachoma is passed from one person to another. Children, particularly those with dirty faces and those sleeping close together in poor housing, are at much increased risk. The infection leads to scarring under the eyelid followed in adult life by inturning eyelashes, which scratch the front of the eye and cause scarring and painful blindness.
In the past, programs to tackle trachoma have generally been token and have, in effect, delayed the initiation of more concerted action. Each decade since the 1940s, attention has been drawn to the issue and then swiftly buried again. So, most of the community remains ignorant about the problem in Australia.
The report of the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit released in December found that in 2007, 14 per cent of children examined in Aboriginal communities had trachoma. The disease was endemic in
65 of 123 communities examined, and in more than half of these, more than 50 per cent of children were affected. Of even greater concern is that most communities reported the absence of organised attempts to control trachoma. In fact, half those children diagnosed with trachoma were not subsequently provided with the antibiotic treatment.
Over the past year, I have visited Aboriginal communities where elders were suffering from the painful late stage of trachoma with inturned eyelashes -- several of the elders were young men and women when I first visited their communities with Fred Hollows more than 30 years ago.
When the Australia Government intervention teams assessed these communities, I watched as residents pointed to "houses" built in the 1970s, saying "we have been asking for years to have these replaced". Their children still lack proper facilities for washing and keeping clean and are forced to huddle together at night to keep warm.
For these people, nothing much has changed in 30 years.
Not only does trachoma needlessly cause painful blindness that once established, cannot be reversed, but it can be readily eliminated by relatively simple means. Countries such as Ghana, Morocco, Iran and Oman have eliminated trachoma in the past five to 10 years.
Even some of the poorest African countries (for example, Ethiopia and Sudan) are making impressive progress in controlling trachoma among their people.
The World Health Organisation has put together a simple integrated and holistic intervention strategy that combines environmental improvement, health promotion, antibiotic treatment and eye surgery.
This has been incorporated into the national guidelines and endorsed by the Prime Minister's proposal.
The need to control trachoma was identified as a "good idea" at last year's 2020 summit and with the commitment of funds included in the $58 million, four-year package proposed by Kevin Rudd last Thursday, Australia should be able to eliminate blinding endemic trachoma in five years.
This political commitment and money will enable targeted work in endemic communities. Regional teams will supervise screening, ensure the proper treatment of those in need, promote cleanliness so that every child has a clean face, and make sure that those elders with ingrown eyelashes are found and operated on. With a very modest investment of $1 per Australian over five years, we can eliminate this ancient and embarrassing scourge from Australia.
I applaud last week's announcement that Australia would tackle this ongoing source of suffering and national shame.
Helen Keller, that famous fighter for the blind and the deaf, said: "Because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do."
The elimination of blinding trachoma is something we can do, and it will help close the gap.
Professor Hugh R. Taylor, AC, is the Harold Mitchell chair of indigenous eye health at the University of Melbourne.
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Eyescan's New Chadstone store now open! Right next to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
Feb 02, 2009
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Eyescan's Tien Wong wins Minister's award for excellence
Dec 14, 2008
Predicting the risk of heart disease through a non-invasive eye scan has won a young Melbourne researcher the Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research for 2006.
Associate Professor Tien Wong, 38, from the Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, led a team that has developed a novel method of predicting cardiovascular disease by scanning the eyes for blood vessel damage.
The team's research has shown that subtle but measurable changes to these tiny blood vessels reveals current and past blood pressure levels, and can predict a range of cardiovascular diseases and related events from stroke to diabetes, cognitive decline and kidney disease.
The scans can be used independently of other tests to diagnose people who may be at risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and hypertension. At present up to 50 per cent of these diseases cannot be picked up by standard diagnostics. Each year, 50,000 Australians die from cardiovascular disease.
Associate Professor Wong is a role model for young scientists and students.
The $50,000 award was presented to Associate Professor Wong at the Australian Society for Medical Research annual dinner, held as part of Medical Research Week. The award is part of the Commonwealth Government's $490 million investment in health and medical research in 2006 through the National Health and Medical Research Council.
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Eyes Can Be The Portal To A Person's Health. Eyescan tells of new eye test results that can save the lives and limbs of diabetics.
Feb 14, 2008
A study that will use a simple eye test to save the lives and limbs of diabetics is one of seven QUT projects funded in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council grants.
Research Professor Nathan Efron will use a breakthrough technique to develop the use of an optical instrument capable of looking at the cornea - the clear window at the front of the eye - under high magnification to assess a painful condition known as diabetic neuropathy.
The NHMRC awarded QUT almost $4 million to fund seven research projects which will improve health and medical outcomes for Australians. Professor Efron, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, will use a $90,000 corneal confocal microscope, one of only a handful in the country, to further research and validate the diagnostic technique.
"Diabetic neuropathy is a nerve disorder caused by diabetes," Professor Efron said.
"It is a significant clinical problem which affects up to 50 per cent of diabetic patients and which currently has no effective therapy.
"It can be very painful and can also result in numbness and tingling to the hands, feet, or legs and in advanced cases is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide."
He said current tests for directly assessing the state of the nerves in diabetic neuropathy involved taking a skin biopsy from the patient's foot and then running tests which could take up to three days.
"Using a corneal confocal microscope diabetic neuropathy can now be diagnosed in a couple of minutes," he said.
"By looking closely at the nerve fibres in the eye we can see whether there is damage to the nerves and thus pinpoint whether or not a patient is suffering diabetic neuropathy."
"The benefit of this new technology is that it's instant, non-invasive and painless, and it appears that it can diagnose this condition much earlier than is currently being done."
Other projects to be funded include:
- A study to improve successful long-term weight loss by deactivating the human famine reaction.
- An assessment of solar UV exposure for Vitamin D synthesis in Australian adults
- A trial of video-delivered intervention for the early detection of melanoma in men 50 years and over
- A study of change in physical activity I mid-age and factors associated with change.
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