Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Winter is the time of year for administration and paperwork. Taxes are due in the spring, and for those of us in private practice, it is the time to clean up and evaluate the business of our practice from the previous year.

Bruder Healthcare announced the release of Eyeleve, a compress clinically proven to increase comfortable contact lens wear time by up to 3 hours daily.

Supporters of Optometry Giving Sight raised enough funds for the 2018 World Sight Day Challenge to provide eye exams and glasses to more than 190,000 people in need of eye care.

Researchers bring to attention the need for handwashing and improved hand hygiene education for contact lens wearers in a review published in Contact Lens and Anterior Eye.

Tangible Science LLC unveiled a new system of products, Tangible Clean and Tangible Boost, designed to ensure that custom contact lenses coated with Tangible Hydra-PEG are effective throughout the prescribed life of the lens.

Bausch + Lomb introduced the Zen multifocal scleral lens for presbyopia.

Contamac announced the launch of Optimum Infinite, a gas permeable contact lens material with a higher combination of oxygen permeability and flexural modulus.

SightGlass Vision announced that it is enrolling children in the U.S. and Canada for its clinical trial, CYPRESS, which will evaluate myopia control with spectacle lenses.

Most workers studied who use visual display units preferred the use of computer-specific progressive-addition lenses over general purpose lenses.

Transitions Optical announced the launch of Gen 8, the next generation of Transitions Signature lenses, in the summer of 2019.