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Eyeglass Guide Launched That Aids in Choosing the Right Eyewear

...ments, such as anti-reflective coatings, polarized lenses and photochromic or UV-blocking lenses, like Transitions(R) lenses -- that automatically darken to block 100% of the sun's eye-damaging rays. In addition, the guide pr...

Lasik Device To Correct Bifocal Vision Approved

...LASIK surgery should first wear monovision contact lenses to determine whether they can tolerate having one eye under-corrected. The surgery permanently changes the cornea, and side effects may include sensitivity to bright lights. These may be visual disturbances such as halos around lights and night-dri...

Wear Protective Sunglasses, Not Just for Style

...y distortion, especially at the lens edges. If the lenses are of high quality, there should be no movement....

Soft Contacts Designed for Cone-Shaped Cornea

...e only available treatment is to wear hard contact lenses or corneal transplant with a donored cornea if the... The scientists tested several designs of custom lenses on the subjects' eyes for both high-contrast and low-contrast visual acuity. They compared vision wi...

Contact Lens Wearers Warned Against Using AMO Solution

...ents had been reviewed, among whom 36 used contact lenses and some sort of solution and 21 reported use of t...ry the CDC said that people who wear soft contact lenses who use Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) CompleteR MoisturePlusTM Multi-Purpose Solution should: * St...

Optometrists Support AMO's Voluntary Contact Lens Solution Recall

...nce can prevent Acanthamoeba keratitis. "Contact lenses are among the safest forms of vision correction; however, lenses and lens care products are medical devices that are regulated by the FDA," said Dr. Jack Schaeffer, ...

Link Between Eye Infections and Contact Lens Use Exposed

...ctors and infection: reusing solution, rubbing the lenses when cleaning them, and showering with lenses on. "Showering can scatter water-borne microbes into a mist and increase exposure to the microbe ...

Artificial Tanning Causes Concern

...hoose sunglasses with even shading, medium to dark lenses and UVA and UVB protection. · Wear sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher. If you work outdoors, or if you will be outside for most of the day, use an SPF of 30. Apply sunscreen at least 20 minutes before heading out and reapply every two hours, more...

'Smart' Sunglasses With Chameleon Powers

... in Chicago.// This single pair of glasses with lenses can be transparent or dark, and in shades of yello...hemical Society's 233rd national meeting. "These lenses are more active, more intelligent, than today's sunglasses" said Chunye Xu, research assistant profe...

AAO Urges Athletes to Wear Protective Eyewear

...nt most sports eye injuries.” Protective eyewear lenses should be made of polycarbonate, which can withsta...at 90 miles per hour, Dr. Hamill said. “Contact lenses offer no protection,” he said, “and street wear glasses are inadequate to protect against any type o...

Juvenile Onset Myopia may Be Due to Parental Refractive Error

...hildren who wear a special kind of no-line bifocal lenses than those who wear more conventional lenses// acc...as slower in children wearing progressive-addition lenses (PALs) when compared to those wearing single-vision lenses (SVLs).Knowing parental myopia may be hel...

Special Diets Necessary for Those Undergoing Chemotherapy

...In the same way that people need unique corrective lenses for their eyesight, patients need unique solutions for chemosensory distortion," Wismer explains. Wismer and Baracos studied 66 patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care and asked them to evaluate their own taste and smell functions u...

Wearing No-line Bifocals Slows Myopia Progression in Some Children

...hildren who wear a special kind of no-line bifocal lenses show signs of slower progression of myopia than those who wear more conventional lenses according to a new// study published in the February 2007 issue of Investigative Ophthalmology & Vis...

Beyond Bifocals: Wavefront Technology Benefits Patients With Presbyopia

...ding to Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, progressive lenses developed using wavefront technology offer significant improvements over standard lenses for treating presbyopia, also known as “Over-40 Near-Blur Syndrome.” Dr. McDonald, a cornea/refract...

Contact Lenses For Younger Children Also

...Optometrists traditionally don't prescribe contact lenses to children until they are at least 12 years old,”...ren or teens in the current study had worn contact lenses prior to the study. The researchers gave each participant a three-month supply of disposable soft co...

Laser Surgery Safer Than Contact Lenses?

Contact lenses were assumed to be safer to use than laser surgery...nger of losing ones vision from the use of contact lenses than from undergoing laser vision correction surgery often referred to as 'Refractive Surgery' .Th...

Cataract Surgery to Eliminate Reading Glasses?

Improvements in the lenses implanted in the eye during cataract surgery have led to a new—and controversial—surgical option for people with presbyopia, a common form// of farsightedness that typically develops in middle age. But a new report from Harvard Medical School urges p...

Corneal infections Linked to External Contamination

...ly the washing and drying of hands before handling lenses and adding new lens solution into the storage case... close attention to product directions for contact lenses and lens solutions....

Investigations Reveal That Infections Due To Contact lens Could Cause Blindness

... be safer by switching to daily disposable contact lenses so as to avoid the risk that could be associated w...5 cases out of every 10,000 people wearing contact lenses was a very astonishing figure. They also stated, "We believe that Singapore is facing a new and unpr...

Reports Characterize Fungal Eye Infections Among Soft Contact Lens Wearers

... cases of fungal keratitis associated with contact lenses were seen between 1969 and 1977, two between 1977 and 1982 and five between 1982 and 1992. Eduardo C. Alfonso, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, report 34 cases of fungal keratitis among soft contact lens ...

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