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Mashup Score: 2Warby Parker's digital vision test lets users renew their glasses and contact lens prescriptions remotely - 3 year(s) ago
The new service will cost users $15 if the prescription is renewed.
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Mashup Score: 2CooperVision leader comments on products and acquisitions - 3 year(s) ago
Product launch and expansionThe company plans a soft launch of My Day multifocal contact lens this summer. The lens will feature a new multifocal design, including a +3.00 D add. Warner says the lens is offering an 80% success rate with first fits and 90% with second fits.“Technology in multifocals is one of the things that if it excited doctors, it excites patients,” says Warner. “This is an…
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Mashup Score: 2
ATLANTA — Alcon presented the latest innovations to the company’s products at this year’s SECO meeting, including Precision1 for Astigmatism, a multi-dose format of Systane Hydration PF and news of an upcoming monthly reusable contact lens. “Everyone knows that the past year has been very challenging for the industry as well as the optometric profession,” Rick
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Mashup Score: 2Johnson & Johnson offers new Acuvue lens for presbyopia - 3 year(s) ago
Johnson & Johnson Vision announced the launch of Acuvue Oasys Multifocal with Pupil Optimized Design for patients with presbyopia. The company said in a press release that the new lens is embedded with a proprietary wetting agent and has a pupil optimized design and hybrid back curve technology, allowing patients with presbyopia to see objects at all distances.
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Mashup Score: 0
MediPrint Ophthalmic announced that the SIGHT-1 clinical trial found a favorable safety and tolerability profile and demonstrated single dose efficacy of the LLT-BMT1 drug-eluting contact lens to treat mild to moderate glaucoma or ocular hypertension. “I was excited to study this investigational treatment and believe that LLT-BMT1’s unique product presentation and potential benefits
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Mashup Score: 1
AZR-MD-001, under investigation for the treatment of contact lens discomfort, has reached the primary endpoints in the phase 2 ECLIPTIC study, according to a press release from Azura Ophthalmics. Topline results from the single-center, single-masked, vehicle-controlled, randomized, parallel-group study showed 26 participants treated with twice-weekly AZR-MD-001 (selenium disulfide), applied to
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Mashup Score: 0Bausch licenses myopia control contact lens - 4 year(s) ago
Bausch Health announced in a press release that one of its affiliates entered an exclusive licensing agreement for a myopia control contact lens developed by Australian nonprofit Brien Holden Vision Institute. “For decades, BHVI [Brien Holden Vision Institute] has sought solutions to fulfill the unmet needs in the ophthalmic space by innovating commercially relevant technologies, including those
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Mashup Score: 1CDC stresses contact lens hygiene during pandemic - 4 year(s) ago
The CDC disseminated information about hygienic contact lens practices through social media, newsletters and other digital channels as part of Contact Lens Health Week from Aug. 17 to 21. The events were primarily digital due to COVID-19, Sarah Collier, MPH, analytic epidemiologist, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious
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Mashup Score: 0Topcon launches myopia management device in US - 4 year(s) ago
Topcon Healthcare introduced into the U.S. market the Aladdin-M, which measures corneal curvature, pupil dynamics and axial length metrics and incorporates features for keratoconus screening and contact lens fitting. Its software can document axial length measurements and track prescription changes over time, the company said in a press release.
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Mashup Score: 1Imec, Ghent University tout artificial iris in smart contact lens | Medical Design and Outsourcing - 4 year(s) ago
Imec and Ghent University are touting an artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens for treating human eye iris deficiencies.
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