Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

The Health Care Alliance for Patient Safety has announced that Sightbox has joined the organization.

A hospital-based vision center set up in a rural area of China provided refraction screening and free spectacles to children, showing how such interventions are needed and how significant they can be to improve academic performance.

Opternative Inc. announced it has partnered with Liingo Eyewear to provide an online vision prescription service.

OcuMedic Inc. announced that it expects to begin clinical studies for its drug-eluting contact lens technology this year.

The California Optometric Association this week cautioned consumers in the state that online vision tests come with significant safety concerns and may appear to violate federal law.

The American Optometric Association led nearly 500 optometrists and students to Capitol Hill in April to focus its advocacy efforts on federal issues affecting patients and the profession.

Researchers found that young adult wearers of multifocal contact lenses viewing binocularly with significant transition zones generally take advantage of the lens add powers to reduce their accommodative responses, according to a study in Optometry & Vision Science.

Long-term hydrogel and orthokeratology lens wear led to an increase in tear film osmolarity compared to spectacle wear, but osmolarity returned to lower-than-baseline levels 1 month after treatment ceased.

The therapeutic EyePrintPRO scleral lens offers improvement in a variety of eye diseases, including limbal stem cell deficiency, post-PRK decentered ablation and pellucid marginal degeneration, according to researchers in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology.

Since 2016, Treehouse Eyes has offered myopia control solutions for children and prides itself on focusing exclusively on this objective. Co-founders Gary Gerber, OD, and vision care industry executive Matt Oerding called on world-renowned optometrists and ophthalmologists involved in research and clinical practice to help build the unique Treehouse Eyes environment.