Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

As questions and mixed information about how to remain safe during the COVID-19 pandemic continue to circle online, the CDC and data from a new peer-reviewed paper by five prominent ocular scientists confirm that healthy individuals can continue to wear contact lenses.

Glaucoma medications free of preservatives, such as benzalkonium chloride, may significantly reduce toxicity-related ocular surface disease, according to findings published in The Clinical Ophthalmologist Journal.

The use of symmetric scleral lenses led to decreased postlens tear layer asymmetries instantaneously following insertion in healthy eyes, according to findings published in Eye & Contact Lens.

The rate at which the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated makes the days (all of 2 weeks ago) when I was asking patients to reschedule if they showed any signs of illness seem quaint. Now, like most of you, we are fully shut down.

As practicing optometrists and their staffs have adjusted hours and operations amidst the new environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, so too has the eye care industry found avenues to continue business and provide much-needed information and products to physicians and the public.

The 2020 Optometry’s Meeting, originally scheduled for June 24 to 28 in Washington, D.C., has been canceled as part of the organization’s commitment to prioritize the health and safety of members, staff and attendees along with their families and patients, according to an announcement from American Optometric Association president Barbara L. Horn, OD, and American Optometric Student Association presidentelect Alex J. Bennett.

ATLANTA – Alcon is now able to bring more products to the market and provide better support to clinicians since its spinoff from Novartis a year ago, Sergio Duplan, Alcon’s region president, North America, told Primary Care Optometry News here at SECO.

by Katie Greiner, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO

ATLANTA – CooperVision’s next iteration of the Biofinity brand, designed for patients with astigmatism and presbyopia, is currently available in a limited release and will come out nationwide in May.

ATLANTA – A clinician in Florida said she discusses Acuvue Oasys With Transitions Light Intelligent Technology Contact Lenses with all patients in her practice.