Tag: Contacts
What your patient might ask you…
Is there a study that says daily contacts are better than reusable lenses?
Here's one.
A study of 36 habitual contact lens wearers was completed to...
CooperVision announces they have dropped UPP for Biofinity Energys, effective immediately.
A UPP Recap:
In 2015, Utah passed the Contact Lens Consumer Protection Act to basically stop UPP.  Alcon, B&L, and Johnson and Johnson fought it claiming it violated the...
The gold contact lens is back in the news.
A new startup says they can prevent glaucoma by using a contact lens implanted with traces of gold.
How would that work?
A special pair of glasses transmits a signal...
What your patient might ask you…
If my 10 year old is a -2.00 myope now, what will they be in 5 years?
No need to dig out your old TI-80...
Weekly social media roundup.
Welcome to the 4th annual Contact Lens Health Week!
While the solar eclipse is throwing shade (literally), the CDC has declared August 21-25 the week to...
The Fairness to Contact Lens Consumer Act is back in the...
Two senators are urging the FTC to move forward with the proposed changes to the Act.
What are the proposed changes?
1. Providers must have all...
Weekly social media roundup.
Twenty seven.
The number of contacts found in one woman's eye. Also the average number of times an eye doctor has been asked about this news story...
Contacts that slow myopia progression.
Three year results on a study comparing myopia progression in 8-12 year olds was presented last week in England. Results showed patients fit in MiSight, a CooperVision dual-focus daily soft contact...
Weekly social media roundup.
The 1990's called. Â They want their contacts back.
After a complicated cataract surgery left this 11 year old dog aphakic, the owners used a contact lens (Acuvue...
Contacts with a little bling.
A contact lens implanted with traces of gold could treat glaucoma. Researchers affiliated with Purdue University have developed a prototype contact lens that can electrically stimulate...