Nearsightedness Controlled With New Contact Lens Technology On June 30 2011 the Myopia Control With Simultaneous Vision Approach Clinical Study was registered as complete at ClinicalTrials.gov. This double blind study involved 100 children testing a contact lens designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness (myopia). Optometry researchers have been studying the interaction between central deatailed [...]
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Out of This World Eyecare
Categories: Cataracts, Eye Diseases, Macular Degeneration
Fascinating information from out for this world on new directions in eyecare from the NEI: NEI Press Release NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Eye Institute For Immediate Release Thursday, January 8, 2009 From Outer Space to the Eye Clinic: New Cataract Early Detection Technique Patients and Astronauts Benefit from NEI-NASA Collaboration A compact fiber-optic probe [...]