Saturday, August 28th, 2010
When children begin begging to replace their glasses with contact lenses, parents often find themselves in a quandary. While desiring to please their children, they want to make sure that their kids are mature enough to manage contact lenses. Although parents would prefer that ophthalmologists give them a specific age ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
CARLSBAD, Calif. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved SynergEyes' next-generation silicone hydrogel hybrid contact lenses for correcting hyperopic, myopic and astigmatic refractive error, including presbyopia, in aphakic and non-aphakic eyes, the company announced in a press release.
SynergEyes plans to market the new hybrid technology as two separate ...
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Consumers who have purchased the 1-DAY ACUVUE TruEye brand of contact lenses made by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care should check if their purchase was affected by a voluntary recall, the Health Science Authority (HSA) said in a press statement today.
This recall was initiated on Thursday 19 August 2010, due to ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Children Report Better Vision-Related Quality of Life with Contact Lenses vs. Glasses; Biggest improvement seen in children 10 years or older, especially in areas of Appearance, Activities, and Satisfaction with Vision Correction
Contact lenses improve vision-related quality of life in children compared with glasses, especially in the areas of appearance and athletics, ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
When children begin begging to replace their glasses with contact lenses, parents often find themselves in a quandary. While desiring to please their children, they want to make sure that their kids are mature enough to manage contact lenses. Although parents would prefer that ophthalmologists give them a specific age ...
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
A novel contact lens-embedded sensor may be capable of producing measurements of IOP and ocular pulse amplitude that are comparable to widely used devices, a study said.
In 12 eyes of 12 sitting subjects, measurements of IOP and ocular pulse amplitude from the contact lens-embedded sensor were similar to handheld and ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Ulcers of the cornea — the transparent front layer of the eye — may be twice as common in the U.S. as previously thought, likely owing to the recent rise in contact lens use, suggests a new study.
Based on more than a million people in northern California, researchers found that ...
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