Optics News

DENVER – Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, partnered with Alcon to discuss the Air Optix Colors Gemstone Collection of contact lenses here at Optometry’s Meeting.

DENVER – The Vision Impact Institute is finalizing a study on commercial driver safety in India, global executive director, Kristan Gross, told Primary Care Optometry News here at Optometry’s Meeting.

DENVER – Visioneering Technologies announced that its NaturalVue Multifocal 1 Day contact lenses are now available in plus powers.

DENVER – Steve Loomis, OD, told the American Optometric Association’s House of Delegates that the Think About Your Eyes public relations campaign is having a “serious impact on the health of people and a serious impact on your practices.”

DENVER – Myopia is increasing in prevalence globally as well as in the U.S., Christopher Wolfe, OD, said here at Optometry’s Meeting. Those patients most likely to progress are those with a family history, Asian background, and near esophoria and high accommodative lag, he said.

Researchers have found that nonmyopic children 7 to 10 years old have a significantly reduced risk of myopia onset if they spend more time outdoors.

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.

Patients with hemianopia are much less likely to watch movies in a theatre and take photographs, according to researchers.

Researchers found that ocular response to optical defocus varied significantly depending on the time of day.