Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

The September workshop hosted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health, the American Academy of Optometry, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Optometric Association and the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists discussed a number of ideas that need to be thoroughly tested before implementation into standards for product testing.

Most eye care providers still remember the 2007 Acanthamoeba keratitis outbreak in contact lens wearers.

It is late on a Saturday evening and I am waiting to board a “red eye” flight home. I have just spent the past few days at Academy 2014 and, as is often the case when attending this meeting, I am physically exhausted, but intellectually charged.

Visioneering Technologies Inc. announced that its NaturalVue daily disposable hydrophilic multifocal contact lens has been issued 510(k) clearance, according to a press release from the company.

The sale of prescription spectacle lenses went up 1.3% from last year and 2.7% from 2 years ago, according to VisionWatch, a survey conducted by the Vision Council.

Industry veteran Lynda Baker, executive vice president for ABB Optical Group, retired Dec. 1 according to a company press release.

DENVER – The combination of atropine and pirenzepine with commercial hydrogel and silicone hydrogel contact lenses may warrant further investigation, according to a presenter here at the American Academy of Optometry meeting.

DENVER – Dry eye status in patients who wear contact lenses was significantly associated with contact lens wettability, deposition and debris, according to a presenter here at the American Academy of Optometry meeting.

NEW YORK — Failure to properly clean and store contact lenses significantly increased risk for acute conjunctivitis, according to a presenter at the 2014 Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

DENVER – Alcon noted its 5 years of support for the Contact Lens Assessment in Youth team during a company-sponsored press conference here at the American Academy of Optometry meeting.