Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Warby Parker announced that it now accepts Medicare insurance, expanding availability of its prescription eye wear to 2 million people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans.

Global authorities in myopia management shared the latest research and efforts to manage the growing prevalence of myopia, here at a CooperVision-hosted panel discussion held prior to the American Academy of Optometry meeting in San Antonio.

The FTC announced that online retailers HollywoodColorContacts.com, WorldColorContacts.com and TopModelContacts.com and their seller, Lawrence L. Duskin, were charged with providing contact lenses to consumers without obtaining the required prescription, failing to verify the prescription information and failing to keep the records required by the Contact Lens Rule.

SECO announced that it will showcase the latest technological innovations in eye and health care as well as up-and-coming eye wear products at its annual meeting in New Orleans in February.

Bausch + Lomb announced that it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for Bausch + Lomb Ultra Multifocal for Astigmatism contact lenses.

Elise Kramer, OD, a private practitioner from southern Florida, compiled questions she receives most often from patients, along with her answers, for Primary Care Optometry News.

A significant disparity exists between eye care providers’ preferred choice of contact lenses for their own wear versus lenses prescribed for their patients, according to a study from CooperVision.

Bausch + Lomb announced that its #ONEbyONE Recycling Program has recycled a combined total of more than 5 million units of used contact lenses, blister packs and top foils since the program’s inception in November 2016.

A 62-year-old Hispanic man presented complaining of progressive deterioration in vision in both eyes with associated photophobia over the last 15 years. He expressed an interest in contact lenses as a form of vision correction because his glasses did not provide him with the required visual acuity necessary for driving a motor vehicle.

Time magazine named Acuvue Oasys with Transitions contact lenses to its “Best Inventions 2018” list.