Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Visioneering Technologies, which manufactures NaturalVue Multifocal 1 Day contact lenses, has released a new analysis of three independent studies that assessed the lenses over 2 years in children with myopia.

My practice is focused on patients recovering from brain injury, including concussion, stroke, brain tumors and other conditions.

With Prevent Blindness declaring September as Sports Eye Safety Month amid a sharp increase in sports-related eye injuries, it is more critical than ever for optometrists to stress the importance of safety and awareness with patients.

The novel Shamir Myopia Control spectacles slowed progression of axial length and spherical equivalent refraction in children, especially those younger than 10 years, compared with single-vision spectacle lenses, according to research.

Myopia Profile has announced the launch of Myopia Action Month, a global initiative to unite eye care professionals and combat childhood myopia through free online seminars, lectures by industry experts and educational resources.

Children with monocular myopia should wear glasses to delay myopia progression resulting from abnormal accommodative function and unbalanced input of binocular visual signals, according to researchers.

In a new research agreement with China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Kubota Vision will evaluate Kubota Glass technology in myopic children in Taiwan.

SightGlass Vision has announced positive results from its 4-year CYPRESS study, which tested myopia control performance of the company’s Diffusion Optics Technology spectacle lenses.

Corneal transplantation for keratoconus has traditionally been performed as a full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty and generally is a very successful procedure.

According to the Optometrists Network, one in six adults older than 45 years and one in four older than 75 has low vision, which can affect one’s ability to perform multiple tasks such as reading, driving and viewing TV or computer screens.