The main finding of the study, published in JAMA, was that kids who had the strongest bifocal lenses experienced the least decline in their myopia (an average -0.60 dioptres), while kids given ...

While soft contact lenses are commonly throwaways, whether it be daily disposable, 2 week replacement, or monthly replacement (all of which you take out and clean at night) there are some soft ...

The phrase specialty contact lenses has meant different things over the years to practitioners and patients alike as contact lenses have evolved. What once was included in the specialty lens ...

Modern Vision Solutions has released a new educational article, “Can You Wear Contacts for Farsightedness?“, aimed at helping ...

Of the original participants, 248 continued in BLINK2, during which all—then aged 11 to 17 years—wore the high-add lenses for two years followed by single-vision contact lenses for the third ...

Several new brands of bifocal contact lenses–some introduced in the past six months with completely new designs–are solving the contact lens dilemma for many of our 40+ patients.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Young nearsighted kids who wear bifocal contact lenses that slow uncoordinated eye growth do not lose the benefits of the treatment once they stop wearing the lenses, new ...

T oday’s featherweight plastic contact lenses are invaluable to many nearsighted and farsighted people. But those who need bifocal correction still cannot use them. Reason: it is useless to ...

Toric contact lenses, a special kind of bifocal contact lens, are used for the treatment of astigmatism. Presbyopia, also known as "old eye," is the inability of the eye to focus on nearby objects.

Wearing bifocal contact lenses may slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, a new study in JAMA suggests. Researchers randomly assigned 294 myopic children, average age 10, to one of ...

Richard Camp, a longtime Houston optician who developed an early bifocal contact lens, died Wednesday. He was 82. A native of Greenville, S.C., he moved to Houston in the late 1940s, where he ...

As a bonus, many soft lenses provide UV protection. Cons. Soft contact lens material can absorb particles, chemicals, bacteria, and mold more easily than both hard and rigid gas-permeable lenses.