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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “contact lens”

 

• Contact Lens Fluid Helps Backpacker Survive in Australian Outback

  
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  It is hard to believe, but packets of daily disposable contact lenses helped a British backpacker to survive three days in the Australian outback. Yes, those tiny amounts of contact lens fluid that protect daily lenses against contamination in transport allowed Samuel Woodhead (18) to avoid excessive dehydration ...
  2 days ago

• Contact Lens Care Standards

  
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  Researchers and specialist journals usually focus on contact lens technology, especially on the latest materials and designs. Contact lens care, which is almost as important to patients, tends to be overlooked. However, as Dr Loretta Szcotka-Flynn points out in her latest article published in Contact Lenses Today, a ...
  3 days ago

• Scleral Contact Lenses and the Problem of Oxygen Permeability

  
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  The fact that scleral contact lenses have been increasingly frequently used by patients with different eye conditions makes them more and more interesting to researchers. And one of the key features of such lenses is oxygen permeability. This is because scleral contact lenses are considerably larger than ...
  1 week ago

• Biocompatibility and Contact Lens Comfort

  
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  Contact lens comfort is affected by a number of factors, including oxygen permeability and lens design. However, one of the most important factors, biocompatibility, is often overlooked. Eye health and contact lens comfort depend on biocompatibility to a large extent. That is why contact lens manufacturers are ...
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• Contact Lens Comfort, Materials and Lens Dehydration

  
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  Contact lens users sometimes suffer from lens-related dry eye syndrome, which – as a number of studies have shown – is mostly associated with lens dehydration. According to the latest research, lens dehydration is closely connected with water content. To be more precise, as far as traditional contact lenses are ...
  1 week ago

• Custom Toric Contact Lenses Can Treat All Kinds of Astigmatism

  
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  Astigmatic patients can now choose from among a wide variety of toric and spherical contact lenses, which effectively correct their refractive errors. However, some astigmatic patients need special means of vision correction to see well. These, eye care experts assure, can greatly benefit from wearing custom toric ...
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• AstraZeneca Not Likely to Acquire Bausch+Lomb

  
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  After a difficult period and lower-than-expected profits, AstraZeneca is said to be looking for acquisition possibilities. For a while, it had been rumoured to be interested in one of the four largest manufacturers of contact lenses, Bausch + Lomb . Now, however, it seems that such a transaction is not very likely. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Contact Lenses as Filters

  
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  Because of their nature, contact lenses cover the pupil of the eye, so that all of the light that reaches the retina must go through the central part of the lens. This, an eye care expert has observed, makes them a perfect basis for various types of filters, blocking not only UV light. According to Dr Eric Papas, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Can We Expect from Future Coloured Contact Lenses?

  
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  Coloured contact lenses have become immensely popular over the last few years, partly due to the success of various films featuring actors wearing such lenses and the progress in contact lens technology, making them more comfortable and available to a huge number of people. According to a contact lens expert, Dr ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Contact Lenses Can Help Patients Suffering from Low Vision

  
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  Despite the progress in ophthalmology, the number of people suffering from low vision and various kinds of vision impairment is growing. What is more, recent reports show that this group of patients has a limited access to specialist help. Fortunately, a new, recently patented type of contact lenses may ...
  2 weeks ago

• Contact Lens as Health Monitors

  
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  The development of electronic contact lenses means that those devices are finding new applications. Some of them involve monitoring the state of the human body, which is especially important to patients suffering from chronic diseases, such as glaucoma or diabetes. There are several devices already available on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Comfort of CLs No Different Than No Lenses, Says Study

  
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  “A recently published study found that 1-Day Acuvue TruEye Brand contact lenses (narafilcon A) were comparable to wearing no lenses at all and had no clinically significant effect on the ocular surface of the eye as compared to noncontact lens wearers, according to a Vistakon press release,” notes Healio’s ...
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• Should Customers Need a Valid Script to Order Online CLs? UK Debates

  
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  “Buting prescription contact lenses online is the subject of continued debate due to the legislation that surrounds the purchase of contact lenses in the UK. At the moment, the UK is the only country in Europe that insists that consumers have a valid prescription in order to buy contact lenses and they can only ...
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• Popular Convenience Store Found to Sell Contact Lenses without a Licence

  
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  Even though the problem of selling contact lenses without a licence is widely known and authorities are trying to enforce the law, new cases are reported almost every day. This time customers found coloured contact lenses at a popular convenience store. Quick Mart is a growing chain of convenience stores offering a ...
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• Will Contact Lenses Be Widely Used as Drug Delivery Devices?

  
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  The idea of using contact lenses to administer medicines is not new. It was proposed by the creators of the first soft contact lenses as early as in 1965. However, despite several breakthroughs in this technology, medicine-releasing contact lenses are still at an experimental stage. The basic issue scientists need ...
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• Scleral Contact Lenses to Continue Gaining Significance

  
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  A number of eye care experts are trying to predict the future of contact lenses . An Associate Professor at Brien Holden Vision Institute believes that one of the most important trend that is likely to continue at least until 2020 is the rising popularity of scleral contacts. According to Dr Eric Papas, it is ironic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Augmented Reality Contact Lenses Change Our Lives?

  
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  When (or if) augmented reality contact lenses become available and widely used, our lives could be completely different, an expert claims. First of all, John Haves believes, we will finally have free hands again, as we will stop walking around holding smartphones or tablets. Secondly, personalised algorithms will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smile With Your Eyes

  
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  We all know about Tyra Banks and her famous “smize” . Maybe it’s true, there is magic in our eyes.   Contact lenses are probably a convenient choice instead of using prescription glasses. Most of us use them not because of eyesight problems but also for cosmetic purposes. I’m guilty of such. I remember ...
  3 weeks ago

• Alcon Issues Statement about Story on Patient Losing an Eye

  
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  Recently, there have been a number of news reports regarding a patient who lost one of her eyes after wearing CIBA Vision (Alcon) contact lenses . In response to those reports, the company has issued a special statement. The manufacturer of Focus Dailies contact lenses denied that the lenses had anything to do with ...
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• A Case of Double Contact Lens-Related Infection Investigated

  
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  Contact lens infections are difficult to treat, and therefore there is a need for a great deal of research into the problem. Recently, a group of scientists published a case report concerning a patient who developed a double contact lens-related infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acanthamoeba. The patient, a ...
  3 weeks ago

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