Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Mitsui Chemicals announced at the end of May that it has obtained SunSensors from Corning Inc.

A recent Optometry and Vision Science study found that individualized wavefront-guided scleral contact lenses were effective in reducing higher-order aberrations.

The Ophthalmic Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration met last week to discuss guidance documents for contact lenses and care products.

Among parents in Hong Kong who have children with myopia, orthokeratology was found to be the most popular and widely accepted treatment for pediatric myopia.

VisionWatch announced data from its continuous research study conducted by the Vision Council on frame market sales for 2013, which indicated that the market generated more than $8.87 billion in sales during 2013, with 70 million frames sold in the U.S.

ORLANDO, Fla. – After evaluating the relationship between sagittal depth and vault, researchers concluded that diagnostic fitting may remain the most efficient way to select base curves for scleral lenses.

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.

The Ophthalmology Devices Market – Competitive Landscape & Global Forecasts to 2018 report, recently released by MarketsandMarkets, projects the industry to grow at a CAGR of 6.8%, to reach $9466.7 million by 2018.