Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

LAS VEGAS — The Contact Lens Institute and the Vision Council previewed new research at Vision Expo West that illustrates the importance of a multifactorial approach to create and maintain a positive contact lens culture in practice.

LAS VEGAS — Zenni Optical has announced a partnership with Meta to provide prescription lens inserts for the just-launched Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset.

LAS VEGAS — Contact lenses of the future will go beyond vision correction, a speaker from the Vision Expo West Global Contact Lens Forum said in this Healio video.

Visioneering Technologies, which manufactures NaturalVue Multifocal 1 Day contact lenses, has released a new analysis of three independent studies that assessed the lenses over 2 years in children with myopia.

My practice is focused on patients recovering from brain injury, including concussion, stroke, brain tumors and other conditions.

With Prevent Blindness declaring September as Sports Eye Safety Month amid a sharp increase in sports-related eye injuries, it is more critical than ever for optometrists to stress the importance of safety and awareness with patients.

The novel Shamir Myopia Control spectacles slowed progression of axial length and spherical equivalent refraction in children, especially those younger than 10 years, compared with single-vision spectacle lenses, according to research.

Myopia Profile has announced the launch of Myopia Action Month, a global initiative to unite eye care professionals and combat childhood myopia through free online seminars, lectures by industry experts and educational resources.

Children with monocular myopia should wear glasses to delay myopia progression resulting from abnormal accommodative function and unbalanced input of binocular visual signals, according to researchers.

In a new research agreement with China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Kubota Vision will evaluate Kubota Glass technology in myopic children in Taiwan.