Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

The Mississippi Optometric Association, Mississippi Vision Foundation and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves announced a statewide initiative to provide eye exams at no cost to the nearly 15% of third-grade students who did not pass the state reading assessment and do not have insurance.

Optometry was well represented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology in Denver, where OD clinicians and researchers presented findings to improve patient care in the areas of ocular surface, retina and contact lenses.

Optometrists are reporting that daily disposable contact lenses are becoming more and more mainstream, largely due to positive patient feedback.

As part of Primary Care Optometry News’ 20th anniversary celebration, we continue to highlight the accomplishments of optometry’s modern day pioneers. For me, each installation serves as both a reaffirmation of our recipient’s tremendous contributions as well as a bit of a trip down memory lane. This month we celebrate the many achievements of Dr. Donald Korb, including that of the development of the CSI contact lens (see “Korb: Pioneer of clinical optometry research”).

As part of Primary Care Optometry News’ 20th anniversary celebration, in each issue throughout 2015 we are profiling a “Pioneer in Optometry” as chosen by the PCON Editorial Board.

Blue light has received so much bad press in the last 20 years that a clinician could, understandably, consider recommending blue-blocking filters to almost all patients. However, given that the visual systems of humans and other animals have evolved over tens of thousands of years in the presence of a lot of blue light, one could well reason that it could have some beneficial role in sustaining and maintaining life, despite its detrimental effects on visual acuity and contrast sensitivity.

Results from a 13-year survey of contact lens prescribing patterns in the U.S. have shown a decrease in the use of gas-permeable lenses and an increase in silicone hydrogel and daily disposable prescribing, according to a recent study.

Now in its ninth year, the World Sight Day Challenge invites eye care professionals, their staff, patients, industry partners and students of optometry to raise funds throughout September and October to help the 600 million people around the world who are needlessly vision impaired.

SEATTLE – Refracting patients with a device that uses point spread function instead of Snellen letters provides more sensitive results without the need for binocular balancing, a clinician said here at Optometry’s Meeting.

SEATTLE – Refracting patients with a device that uses point spread function instead of Snellen letters provides more sensitive results without the need for binocular balancing, a clinician said here at Optometry’s Meeting.