GLG News by Silicone Hydrogel and Bausch and Lomb Contact Lens Prescribers: Ophthalmologists and Optometrists (US)

At the recent ARVO meeting, Italian researchers performing a randomized clinical trial on patients with wet AMD found that patients treated with photodynamic therapy (PDT) with Visudyne (verteporfin, Novartis) plus Lucentis(ranibizumab, Genentech) had a better visual result than patients treated with...

This article is important in that although we presently have ocular vitamins implicated in the  the retardation of AMD they do not currently include omega 3 fatty acids or Vitamin D.  At this point the only treatments available for dry AMD is based on the first ARED study- which implicated...

One company suing another in the eye industry is commonplace these days.  Fines are paid and life goes on.  Will this lawsuit affect the sales or market share of either of these companies now, or in the long-term?  Not significantly, on both accounts.

So Bausch and Lomb is involved in yet another recall.  At least Bausch and Lomb learned a lesson from the big MoisturLoc® mess.  Pulling the affected solution lots quickly and voluntarily was the smartest thing they could have done.  But I have to ask, 'Where is the quality...

For a company that has had its share of rejections and problems with the approval of a phakic IOL (ICL Visian)  that it tried to have enter the US market almost a decade ago, things are not improving much for Staar.  The company recently reported that despite its request over one year ago...

Mutifocal iols are currently used to try to correct distance and near vision.  While patients are often pleased by their improved near vision without glasses, many complain of poor optical quality for distance vision.  Due to great out of pocket costs and poor quality of vision under some...

These cases may just be an isolated incident and the report of one or two cases clearly creates attention to the infection and awareness for further cases. In the over 11 years since laser vision correction has been approved in the USA we have not seen much incidence of these infections, so we must...

An argument can be made for LASEK over LASIK for the initial laser treatment in some patients, but the re-lifting of the lasik flap and performing a laser re treatment is the management of choice in almost all cases of post lasik myopic regression. An exception would be if the cornea is too thin or...

Refractive surgery is taken for granted by patients to "get rid of their glasses and contact lenses". They rarely consider the possibility of loss of vision.

As the number of presbyopic patients, so does the demand for multifocal vision correction for these patients.  Currently, the two main 'non-spectacle' options are multifocal contact lenses and accommodative IOL's.  With the accommodative IOL industry growing, will it make a significant...