Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Patient selection, efficacy endpoints, acceptable rate of microbial keratitis and patient-reported outcomes are all crucial factors in a randomized controlled clinical trial designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a device to control myopia progression, according to expert panelists.

Bausch + Lomb announced that it is voluntarily recalling all lots of PeroxiClear 3% hydrogen peroxide cleaning and disinfecting solution in the U.S. and Canada.

LAS VEGAS – Costa announced here at Vision Expo West that its prescription dealers can now offer Costa Optical frames.

LAS VEGAS – Wearable technology will make its way into the optometric practice in the near future, Jerome Legerton, OD, MS, MBA, FAAO, reported here at Vision Expo West.

LAS VEGAS – Fifty percent of the U.S. population will be at least 50 years old by 2017, and a variety of contact lenses are available for treating their presbyopia, Louise Sclafani, OD, said here at the Global Contact Lens Forum during Vision Expo West.

LAS VEGAS – Contact lens dropout rates have not changed despite improved lens technology, Paul M. Karpecki, OD, said, and it is due to computer and smart phone use.

Johnson & Johnson looks to its planned acquisition of Abbott Medical Optics as instrumental in improving patients’ eye health experience and nourishing the partnership between optometry and ophthalmology.

LAS VEGAS – “Digital is very disruptive,” Richard Clompus, OD, FAAO, told attendees at an emerging technology panel discussion here at Vision Expo West. “When it begins, it’s not great, but it’s good enough.

LAS VEGAS – “We haven’t scratched the surface of the contact lens market,” moderator Scot Morris, OD, said during the Global Contact Lens Symposium here at Vision Expo West.

LAS VEGAS – Contact lens legislation is the single biggest challenge the optometric profession has had in the last 3 to 5 years and will have in the next 3 to 5 years, Scot Morris, OD, said here at Vision Expo West.