Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Fitting the aging eye with contact lenses can be a challenge.

NEW ORLEANS — EssilorLuxottica’s Essilor Stellest lenses slowed myopia progression and axial length increase in children in a 4-year clinical trial, according to data presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.

NEW YORK — Nearly a quarter of more than 2,000 contact lens and spectacle wearers surveyed said they wear both modalities to correct their vision, according to a report from the Contact Lens Institute presented at Vision Expo East.

A phoria is a misalignment or deviation in binocular vision that is often difficult to detect, because the eyes compensate for the difference.

New York City-based Eiyan Lens is a new direct-to-consumer contact lens brand created to make quality contact lenses that are affordable and accessible at 58% less than brand-name contact lenses.

NEW YORK — CooperVision introduced its “Make Children’s Sight Your Fight” advocacy and education campaign during a press conference at Vision Expo East.

The risk for Acanthamoeba keratitis increases threefold with reusable contact lens wear compared with daily disposable lens wear, highlighting the importance of safe use guidelines, according to research in Ophthalmology.

The incidence of microbial keratitis in children wearing soft contact lenses is no higher than that reported in adults, while the incidence of corneal infiltrative events is lower, according to a literature review in Eye & Contact Lens.

NEW YORK — Avulux announced the U.S. availability of its new spectacle lens designed to block the majority of the light spectrum that has been shown to be harmful to migraine sufferers.

Orthokeratology is a viable myopia correcting technique and yielded high satisfaction in adults with low to moderate myopia in China, researchers reported.