Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Bausch + Lomb received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s Infuse daily disposable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.

Activation of night mode functions on smartphones more efficiently reduced the amount of short-wavelength light compared with commercially available blue light-reducing spectacle lenses in a study focused on digital devices and their potential effects on circadian cycles.

Patients are generally pretty savvy about contact lenses, but the specific advantages of new technology lenses usually come as a pleasant surprise.

More than one-third of survey respondents reported staying in touch with their eye care providers during March and April, even with most offices closed, according to the Vision Council’s April COVID-19 Optical Impact Consumer Study.

The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to increase its enforcement of the federal patient safeguards related to contact lens sales in light of the fact that many optometry practices are not fully operational during the COVID-19 pandemic.

by John Coble, OD, FAAO, and Tom Annunziato, OD

SightGlass Vision announced topline results from a trial of the company’s novel eyeglasses designed to slow the progression of myopia in children.

A progression report provided comparable predictions for the risk of fast visual field progression in patients with open-angle glaucoma, according to a retrospective multicenter study published in the Journal of Glaucoma.

The use of senofilcon A photochromic contact lens did not impair or diminish driving performance or vision, according to findings from a randomized, single-center, crossover study published in Optometry and Vision Science.

The use of contact lenses for myopia control was safe starting in childhood and over the course of a lifetime and carried potential preventive ocular health benefits compared with the lifetime risk for visual impairment from myopia, according to findings from a recent study.