Contact Lens and Anterior Eye Archives - Insight Presented by Prime Creative Media Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:35:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.insightnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-Insight-favicon-32x32.png Contact Lens and Anterior Eye Archives - Insight 32 32 Contact lenses favoured over spectacles with mask wear https://www.insightnews.com.au/contact-lenses-favoured-over-spectacles-with-mask-wear/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 21:00:36 +0000 https://www.insightnews.com.au/?p=23800
Thirty participants – all habitual spectacles wearers with no history of contact lens use – took part in the study.

A new study has established that wearing contact lenses offers better vision correction than spectacles when paired with face masks and doing so likely improves adherence to mask use. Conducted by EurolensRead More

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Thirty participants – all habitual spectacles wearers with no history of contact lens use – took part in the study.
A new study has established that wearing contact lenses offers better vision correction than spectacles when paired with face masks and doing so likely improves adherence to mask use. Conducted by Eurolens
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The international, multire-centre trial followed 144 children.

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The international, multire-centre trial followed 144 children.
Recently published results of an extensive study into the physiological response to daily disposable soft contact lenses are adding to a growing body of evidence in support of contact lens wear in children
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]]> UNSW academic named guest editor of contact lens journal special issue https://www.insightnews.com.au/unsw-academic-named-guest-editor-of-contact-lens-journal-special-issue/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:32:14 +0000 http://www.insightnews.com.au/?p=18431 multifocal contact lenses atropine myopia
The efficacy of combined use of multifocal contact lenses and and 0.01% atropine remains unclear.

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The efficacy of combined use of multifocal contact lenses and and 0.01% atropine remains unclear.
UNSW School of Optometry and Vision Science academic and contact lens expert Dr Nicole Carnt has been named as a guest editor for a special issue of a premier international contact lens journal. Carnt
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]]> COVID-19: Dispelling myths around contact lens wear https://www.insightnews.com.au/covid-19-dispelling-myths-around-contact-lens-wear/ Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:48:27 +0000 http://www.insightnews.com.au/?p=13892

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Three of the world’s most published researchers are urging scrupulous contact lens hygiene amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and have warned of the potential for virus transmission among the presbyope
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