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STAAR Surgical Forms Team of Leading Ophthalmic Surgeons to Study the Use of Collamer(R) Material for Accommod
MONROVIA, Calif., Nov.20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STAAR Surgical Company today announced the creation of a team of leading ophthalmic surgeons, CAST (Collamer(R) Accommodating Study Team), to work with the Company in a collaborative...
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Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to ‘Myopic Creep’ in Children, Study Shows
Soft contact lens wear does not result in clinically significant acceleration in the development of nearsightedness in children and does not cause relevant incr Soft Contact Lenses Do Not Lead to ‘Myopic Creep&...
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An Exchange of Subluxated Lenses
When I decided to perform a refractive lens exchange on a 25-year-old female with a history of long-standing bilateral ectopia lentis and progressively worsening vision, I knew I had taken on a challenging case.CASE PRESENTATION During...
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Optical companies are weathering the crisis
Despite industry concerns over an economic downturn, few crisis effects were felt by a number of major optical companies posting their third-quarter financial announcements for 2008.Among those revealing healthy results were ophthalmic...
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Johnson & Johnson breaks multichannel mobile campaign
Pharmaceuticals giant Johnson & Johnson and General Motors Corp.'s Chevrolet car brand recently ran mobile marketing campaigns using in-call audio ads, SMS and mobile Web sites.For the deployment of the audio ads, both brands...
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The Risk of Microbial Keratitis With Newer Contact Lenses
_ The Risk of Microbial Keratitis With Newer Contact Lenses.
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Application of the Polychromatic Defocus Transfer Function to Multifocal Lenses
JOURNAL OF REFRACTIVE SURGERY Vol.24 No. 6 November/December 2008 Jim Schwiegerling, PhD; Junoh Choi, MS To model the performance of multifocal lenses in polychromatic lighting. The defocus transfer function (DTF) is a mathematical...
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GP Lenses Prove It's Never too Late
When this 85-year-old patient with SJS and a host of other complications presented for her first contact lens fitting, we had to consider more than just her his GP Lenses Prove It's Never too Late.
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Optimal Dioptric Value of Near Addition Lenses Intended to Slow Myopic Progression
Jiang BC et al.- Using progressive lenses to delay the progression of myopia may have promising results if each subject's prescription is customized based on establishing a balance between the accommodative and vergence systems. ---...
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Olp New Products - November 2008
Brain Power Inc.(BPI) has introduced the Turbo Gradient 4, which features four independently controlled gradient heads, automated fluid-level sensing, and programmed rotation of the lens in the dye for rapid, uniform results. A single...
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Decorative Halloween Eye Lenses May Pose Serious Risks
FRIDAY, Oct.31 (HealthDay News) -- This Halloween, don't put anything in your eye unless it has been prescribed by an eye doctor. That's the warning from the American Optometric Association (AOA), which is concerned about people wearing...
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Decorative Halloween Eye Lenses May Pose Serious Risks
FRIDAY, Oct.31 (HealthDay News) -- This Halloween, don't put anything in your eye unless it has been prescribed by an eye doctor. That's the warning from the American Optometric Association (AOA), which is concerned about people wearing...
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Contact Lenses are Home to Pathogenic Amoebae
Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness.New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contact lens...
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Photomicrographs, Medical Innovation, Girls and Math
One of the more popular features last week was a slide show by Scientific American of the 20 winning photos from the 2008 Nikon Small World contest.The images, submitted from around the world, were taken with visible-light microscopes.
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Video Display Systems Supplies LCoS Projectors for Thales
Video Display Corporation (NASDAQ: VIDE), a world leader in visualization and display solutions, is proud to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, VDC Display Systems of Cape Canaveral, Florida has delivered projectors for two Full...
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Rotational Stability of the AcrySof SA60TT Toric Intraocular Lenses: A Cohort Study
_ Rotational Stability of the AcrySof SA60TT Toric Intraocular Lenses: A Cohort Study.
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Newer Contact Lenses Don't Cut Infections
3, 2008 -- Neither the newer contact lenses that allow more oxygen into the eye nor daily disposable lenses have reduced the risk of a dangerous eye infection as hoped, according to two new studies.Whatever the type of lens,...
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Phakic Lenses: Watch Your Cell Counts
Last year, European regulatory agencies pulled several models of angle-supported phakic intraocular lenses from the market in response to reports of unreasonable amounts of endothelial cell loss.This move gave surgeons everywhere pause,...
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