Warning to watch novelty contact lenses
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
An eye specialist is calling for greater restrictions on selling novelty contact lenses after an Auckland man was left partially blind because of an ...

Keep your red eye on the ball
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Those are contact lenses. But these are not merely a fashion statement intended to intimidate. These are Maxsight contact lenses developed by Nike and ...

Advancements in eyecare: contacts and nutrition
St. James Plaindealer - St. James,MN,USA
In the past few years the contact lens industry has changed significantly and the importance of good nutrition on vision has been well documented. Eye health is the main emphasis in the contact lens field ...

Body parts: Eye on the lens
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
All of these defects can be corrected with glasses or contact lenses; there is no need to perform eye surgery. However, those who don't want to wear contact ...

CIBA issues recall on select lots of Air Optix
Optician Online - Sutton,Surrey,UK
CIBA Vision is conducting a voluntary trade-level recall of select lots of spherical AIR Optix contact lenses. The company said in a statement that no other CIBA lenses were involved with the recall and that it had notified the MHRA and the MDA of the voluntary trade-level recall ...

Advanced Medical Optics Acquires WaveFront Sciences
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WaveFront Sciences, Inc. designs and manufactures the industry's highest resolution Shack-Hartmann-based aberrometer, which precisely measures the total refractive error and wavefront aberrations of the human eye as part of the wavefront-guided custom laser vision correction procedure ...

A sight better than glasses
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
The infamous NHS wire spectacles quickly became a part of my life and I clung on to the hope of one day trading them in for contact lenses as soon as I was ...

Coastal Contacts adds Clearlabs products to offering
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse) - Canada
Coastal Contacts Inc. (TSX: COA) is pleased to announce today that it has added the Clearlabs line of contact lenses to its product offering. Coastal has become the first and only direct-to-consumer retailer to offer the Clearlabs product line ...

People with vision problems have new choices to make
Thousand Oaks Acorn - Thousand Oaks,CA,USA
"People know that it's going to be able to help them remove contact lenses and see better, but not everybody is a candidate. We have to be careful." ...

US warns contact lens users
Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India
In the US eye doctors have expressed alarm at a new warning that a rare but serious fungal infection may be linked to a popular contact lens solution ...

More people trading glasses, lenses for Lasik eye surgery
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
For more than a decade, an increasing number of people who have tired of wearing glasses and contact lenses have been turning to Lasik eye surgery to alleviate their nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. About 1.4 million people each year undergo the procedure in the United States...

Research and Markets: Driven by Strong Demand for Its Acuvue Brand
Businesswire - Dublin, Ireland
The company is the world's leading contact lens manufacturer, with the leading positions for spherical and one-day lenses. It also holds the second position for cosmetic lenses and for speciality lenses that address conditions such as astigmatism and presbiopia. Driven by strong demand for its Acuvue brand, the company has achieved compound annual sales growth of 10% from 2000 to 2005...

Laser surgery: Getting older could mean seeing better
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Ms. Hwu underwent one of several relatively new procedures, this one known as Epi-Lasik, which is designed for patients who can't have conventional laser surgery because it removes too much corneal tissue ...

Westlake Village doctor keeps close eye on new surgical techniques
Agoura Hills Acorn - CA,USA
With more than a million people signing up for Lasik surgery in the United States every year, it’s clear people are tired of toting their glasses or popping in their contacts every morning. But the truth is, not everyone is cut out for the surgery ...

Contact Lenses A Good Choice For Children 12 And Younger
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Children 8 to 12 years old are just as adept as teenagers at handling and wearing contact lenses. "Optometrists traditionally don't prescribe contact lenses to children until they are at least 12 years old," said Jeffrey Walline, an assistant professor of optometry at Ohio State University. "But we found that younger children are just as responsible with their lenses." ...

Contact Lenses Need to Handled With Care
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA
Contact lens wearers face a 1% chance of developing a serious eye infection over a 30 year period, according to recent research carried out in the United States. The primary reason for this is the failure to look after lenses properly...

Correctable Visual Impairment Among Persons With Diabetes - United States
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
Despite the importance of detecting and treating vision problems caused by refractive errors (i.e., correctable visual impairment [CVI]), a limited number of studies have attempted to determine the proportion of persons with diabetes whose poor vision could be corrected with accurately prescribed glasses or contact lenses ...

Paris' fake eyes
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
'The Simple Life' star has revealed she really has brown eyes, but wears coloured contact lenses. She said: "I'ma brand, an entertainer ...