Bye-bye to glasses and contact lenses
Fortnightly Tenerife News - Tenerife,Spain
The traditional solution to eye troubles that derive from refraction, miopía, hypermetrophy and astigmatism has always been spectacles, or contact lenses. But these can produce certain effects (depending on the person) that the patient may not like, especially at work or play ...

American Optometric Association Backs Contact Lens Patient Safety
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
The American Optometric Association, the voice of the 34,000 frontline providers of eye and vision care in communities across America, today announced its support for legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives designed to safeguard consumers from deficient or illegal contact lens prescription verification practices used by the Internet and mail order contact lens sales industry ...

New formula to nix far-sightedness in LASIK patients
South Asian Women's Forum - New Delhi,India
Patients, who undergo LASIK surgery, may soon not need to go to the doctor repeatedly to adjust their vision, as Ophthalmologists have developed a new formula to help surgeons get it right the first time round ...

Doctors Cut Repeat LASIK Visits Dramatically
WebWire (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
Ophthalmologists have developed a formula that slashes by nearly two-thirds the likelihood that patients will need repeat visits to an eye surgeon to adjust their vision after their initial LASIK visit ...

Higher Prices for Contact Lenses?
WebMD - USA
A dispute between contact lens manufacturers, sellers, and eye care professionals could soon have 38 million consumers paying more for their lenses ...

An artificial cornea is in sight, thanks to biomimetic hydrogels
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Other ocular applications of the hydrogel include more comfortable contact lenses. Onlays of hydrogel lenses on the surface of the cornea could serve as extended-wear contact lenses ...

Researchers focus on improving bifocals by creating auto-focus lenses
49abcnews.com - Topeka,KS,USA
Bifocal glasses have two lenses: the top for seeing distance and the lower for close-up work, like reading. New, electronic lenses would eliminate the need for two different lenses. They work by applying electrical current to liquid crystal sandwiched between two pieces of glass. This changes the sharpness of the entire lens ...

J&J Vision Official: Interest In Lens-Solution Market
Easy Bourse (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France
The market for contact lenses and related products reached about $6.3 billion in 2005, Casey said. Within that larger space, J&J has a major position in the $4.5 billion lens market as the No. 1 seller of spherical reusable lenses and daily disposable lenses - the top two lens categories ...

The backlash against 'doctor only' contacts
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Ms. Holeywell had stumbled upon a little-understood segment of the vision-care industry: so-called doctor-only, or limited-distribution lenses that are meant to be sold only through eye-care professionals ...

Implanted contact lense offer bright vision
Rocklin and Roseville Today - Rocklin,CA,USA
Implanted lenses are the latest option for people tired of eyeglasses ...

Laser insight
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
Conventional Lasik surgery is based on the patient’s glasses prescription. Wavefront-guided Lasik bounces light waves off the back of the eye to create a 3-D map that’s used to guide the laser treatment. One small study of 25 patients suggested that wavefront Lasik yielded fewer nighttime distortions, such as halos and glare, than conventional Lasik, and resulted in better vision for slightly more patients ...

Contact wearers beware
Derby Valley Gazette - Derby,CT,USA
Contact lens wearers are more at risk to contracting eye infections than those who wear glasses or have perfect vision. In fact, women are more prone to eye infections than men ...