Spectacles

Providing free reading glasses significantly increased self-reported monthly earnings and quality of life among individuals with presbyopia in low-income communities in Bangladesh, according to study results published in PLOS ONE.

NEW YORK — NewSight Reality introduced its Transparent Optical Module 2.0, technology that facilitates the use of augmented reality in spectacle lenses, at Vision Expo East.

NEW YORK — New data from the Contact Lens Institute indicate that nearly half of glasses wearers are interested in wearing contact lenses, but only one in 10 said their eye care provider suggested them.

Developments in spectacle lenses over the past year have revealed their efficacy beyond vision correction.

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.

SightGlass Vision has announced positive results from its 4-year CYPRESS study, which tested myopia control performance of the company’s Diffusion Optics Technology spectacle lenses.

Self-refraction using adjustable-focus spectacles in children was noninferior and more hyperopic compared with noncycloplegic autorefraction, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology.

The number of spectacle lens prescriptions ordered from online vendors that met national standards for optical quality has significantly improved since previous studies, according to data published in Optometry and Vision Science.

Spectacle lenses with aspheric lenslets, also known as the Essilor Stellest lenses, were found to significantly slow myopia progression and axial elongation in children, according to results from a 2-year clinical trial presented at the virtual Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting.