Optics News

Optometry Giving Sight has kicked off its 2024 World Sight Day Challenge fundraiser with the theme, “Giving Together, Seeing Forever,” to celebrate the power of the optometry community and efforts to eradicate uncorrected refractive error.

Refractive error, age, sex and race/ethnicity can be predictive factors in determining the probability of myopia onset in prepubescent children, according to a study published in Optometry and Vision Science.

LENZ Therapeutics has submitted a new drug application to the FDA for LNZ100, a preservative-free, once-daily aceclidine-based ophthalmic solution designed to treat presbyopia, the company announced in a press release.

Increased availability of photoscreeners led to higher rates of overall vision screening for children aged 3 years in one large health care system, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

In this Healio video, Jeff Todd, president and CEO at Prevent Blindness, discusses the organization’s art therapy program, which was created to help patients with thyroid eye disease cope with feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression.

The progression of myopia among school-aged children in China appeared to primarily affect changes in inner retinal thickness over the course of 1 year, according to research.

Last fall, we discussed unique issues that face firearm hunters when they’re considering their best refractive target after cataract surgery. Today, we’ll cover a related topic: How to counsel a bowhunter about their ideal refractive target.

Toric soft contact lens prescribing almost doubled internationally from 2000 to 2023, with nearly all clinically significant astigmatism being corrected by these lenses, researchers wrote in Contact Lens & Anterior Eye.

Prevent Blindness has declared August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, a time to educate parents, caregivers, professionals and policymakers on vision and eye health and its role in childhood development.

Astigmatic contact lens wear poses two key challenges: comfort and stability of vision.