New device combats growing myopia and dry eye crises
Topcon Healthcare's latest instrument for eye health practices wanting to strengthen their myopia and dry eye services is now available ...
Tag: Myopia
Contact lens among top 100 scientific breakthroughs of 2020
CooperVision’s MiSight 1 day contact lens has been ranked in Popular Science’s top 100 innovations of 2020, alongside a fast, ...
Twin licensing deals bolster Bausch + Lomb’s myopia portfolio
Bausch + Lomb has acquired an exclusive license for a novel myopia control contact lens developed by a Sydney ophthalmic ...
Myopia innovations snap up Silmo d’Or awards
Hoya’s new myopia control lens and Topcon’s Myah instrument for myopia and dry eye management have taken out their respective ...
Hoya launches defocus myopia lens for children
Australian eyecare professionals will have access to a new myopia control spectacle lens from 1 October when Hoya Lens Australia ...
UNSW cements partnership to develop novel therapeutic contact lenses
Sydney researchers are collaborating with Uka Tarsadia University in India to investigate using contact lenses as drug delivery systems for ...
Myopia institute unveils global hunt for country representatives
The International Myopia Institute (IMI) has launched a global search for country representatives to lead the dissemination of key information ...
Profession to look ‘stronger than ever’ in new optometry documentary
The global eyecare community is poised for the virtual screening premiere of Open Your Eyes, a new documentary highlighting the ...
Myopia: Spectacles the most common approach for Aussie optometrists
Australia’s first myopia management survey has revealed single‐vision distance spectacles are the mainstay of myopia correction in school‐aged children, despite ...
Aussie researchers uncover faster, cheaper test for myopia
South Australian researchers have developed a new method to assess myopia using optical coherence tomography (OCT). The recent study from ...