Contact Lenses/Eye Wear News

Red-tinted contact lenses offered improvement in binocular visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and photophobia, both indoors and outdoors, and a marked improvement in quality of life in patients with degenerative retinal diseases, according to researchers in Optometry and Vision Science.

GfK’s POS Tracking team reported that dollar sales of daily disposable U.S. soft contact lenses have surpassed that of weekly lenses from June to November in 2015 vs. the same period in 2011, according to a press release.

Paul Gifford, PhD, FAAO, and Kate Louise Gifford, BAppSc(Optom) determined through a literature review that contact lens wear for myopia control outweighs the risk in allowing the condition to develop, while further research is required to establish the length and stability of effect.

An in-market assessment of 1-Day Acuvue Moist Multifocal contact lenses showed the product performing at high standards, similar to those seen during clinical evaluations, according to a press release from Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.

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Bausch + Lomb announced its acquisition of Alden through its parent company, Valeant, in a press release.

Cholesterol uptake was found to be higher with silicone hydrogel lens materials than conventional hydrogel materials, according to researchers in Optometry and Vision Science.

Researchers reported that the ratio between the friction and normal force of 1-Day Acuvue TruEye was similar to the cornea after a full day of wear.

Soft contact lenses with positive spherical aberration incorporated into the optical design slowed axial elongation and show promise for controlling myopia, according to researchers in a study from Optometry & Vision Science.

Researchers found that lens type and the near vision phoria state affect near vision posture in myopic children, according to a study from Jinhua Bao and colleagues in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.