News tagged with wearing contact lenses
Kids with contact lenses like their looks better than kids with glasses
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Children wearing contact lenses felt better about how they look, their athletic abilities and acceptance by their friends than did children wearing eyeglasses in a recent study.
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Contact lenses are home to pathogenic amoebae
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contac ...
Self-moisturizing contact lenses, naturally
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Even contact lenses are joining the trend to go green. Chemical engineering researchers at McMaster University have shown that a common fluid found in our bodies can be used as a natural moisturizing agent in contact lenses.
Contact lenses purchased over Internet may place individuals at risk for harmful eyecare practices
Jan 05, 2008 |
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Purchasing contact lenses online may save consumers time, but the process could cause more problems in the long run, according to a new study reported in the January issue of Optometry: Journal of the American Optometric ...
Contact lenses a good choice for children 12 and younger
Dec 08, 2006 |
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Children 8 to 12 years old are just as adept as teenagers at handling and wearing contact lenses.
Contact lenses check blood sugar
Nov 13, 2006 |
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A scientist in Baltimore has developed a contact lens that can provide diabetics with a non-invasive way to monitor blood sugar.
Smart Contact Lenses
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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"Smart" contact lenses that measure pressure within the eye and dispense medication accordingly could be made possible using a new material developed by biomedical engineers at UC Davis.
Study: Kids think eyeglasses make other kids look smart
May 12, 2008 |
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Young children tend to think that other kids with glasses look smarter than kids who don’t wear glasses, according to a new study. Children between the ages of 6 and 10 who were surveyed for the study also thought that kids ...
Investigators inhibit corneal inflammation
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Penn State Hershey College of Medicine identified a novel therapeutic that reduces sterile inflammation within the cornea.
Optometrists make custom contact lenses for long-underserved patients
May 13, 2009 |
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While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options ...
Tear research focused on contact lens risks, benefit
May 06, 2009 |
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Contact lenses are great for sight, but do they have an impact on general eye health? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry are working to answer that question by analyzing tears.
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