Contact Lenses News

NanoVision Group announced it has entered into a manufacturing and distribution agreement with OVI Lens, as well as a collaboration for new technological development.

Alcon has entered into an agreement with a division of Google to in-license its smart lens technology for all ocular medical uses, according to an Alcon press release.

The Cooper Companies Inc. announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Sauflon Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Unmodified contact lenses have been shown to release ciprofloxacin in about an hour; however, the use of a molecular imprinting strategy extends that to 24 hours, according to a researcher who presented his poster here at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.

ORLANDO, Fla. – When only one-third of patients were successfully fit with an extended-wear hydrogel contact lens after surgery with the Boston Keratoprosthesis Type 1, those results allowed clinicians to alter the design to achieve a 63% success rate.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Researchers reported that they found the severity of high myopia and the presence of retinal pathology to be the two factors that are primarily associated with vision impairment in their study of 1,686 eyes with high myopia.

Two Google project co-founders announced on the company’s official blog this week that they are testing a smart contact lens designed to measure glucose levels in tears. It has been proposed that the product will serve as a management tool for patients with diabetes.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Contact lens-associated keratitis is rare, but the risk of infection increases significantly with extended wear, a speaker said here.

Cataract surgery paired with IOL implantation and spectacle correction in infants cost more when compared with cataract surgery with contact lens treatment, according to a study.

WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Bandage contact lenses, which provide pain relief and comfort from exposed nerve endings that occur with corneal maladies such as corneal abrasions from corneal dystrophies, neurotrophic keratopathy, bullous keratopathy and postsurgical states, may also be developed into drug delivery vehicles, a speaker said here.