News from the AOA's Blog

Bausch + Lomb announced it has acquired 100 percent of the outstanding shares of Laboratorio Pförtner Cornealent SACIF, the controlling entity of Waicon. Waicon is the Argentinean market leader in contact lenses and lens care products. Read the rest of this entry ?

Katzen Eye Group, the largest private eye care practice in Maryland, has partnered with RxTrials, Inc., to provide clinical research study support in ophthalmology and optometry. Read the rest of this entry ?

When you are behind the wheel of a car, your eyes are constantly on the move – looking at vehicles ahead and to the side, reading road traffic signs, checking your rear view mirrors, and shifting your gaze inside and outside your vehicle in order to check the speedometer, look at your global navigation system, or change a radio station. Read the rest of this entry ?

Shamir announces the launch of its all-new Web site, which went live in November. The completely revamped site was updated with a whole new look and layout to ensure information is easier to locate and access. Read the rest of this entry ?

Each year we reflect on achievements and celebrate progress. Yet our strongest industry supporters, the Ophthalmic Council™, are the key to this success year after year. We sincerely appreciate all that they do for the profession of optometry and the AOA. Read the rest of this entry ?

 Nearly one in eight soft contact lens wearers reports having “sensitive eyes,” new research shows. The data also reveal that “sensitive eye” patients experience a greater incidence of discomfort symptoms, including dryness, redness, and stinging or burning compared to ‘non-sensitive eye’ patients and that many such patients may benefit by being refit with Acuvue® Oasys® Brand Contact Lenses with Hydraclear® Plus Technology (senofilcon A). The findings were presented at the American Academy of Optometry meeting. Read the rest of this entry ?

ABB Concise announced its partnership with Crystal Practice Management to provide Crystal PM customers with the convenience of ordering their contact lenses from ABB Concise through their practice management system.

Crystal PM and ABB Concise are fully integrated, and customers can begin ordering from ABB Concise immediately. Lynda Baker, executive vice president of ABB Concise, said. Read the rest of this entry ?

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. last month announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Eylea (aflibercept) injection for the treatment of patients with neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) at a recommended dose of 2 milligrams every four weeks (or monthly) for the first 12 weeks, followed by 2 milligrams every eight weeks (two months). Read the rest of this entry ?

Freedom Scientific has upgraded its Sara™ and Sara CE Scanning and Reading Appliances to improve speed and accuracy.

“We’ve added ABBYY FineReader® to the OmniPage® OCR engine we were already using, combining the best features of both products to offer our best and fastest print-to-speech conversion yet,” said Dusty Voorhees, senior product manager. “We’ve also made improvements to our SARA flatbed scanning model to reduce the time to gain speech and Braille access to printed text by a third. While the SARA CE camera model is faster overall, the flatbed scanner SARA now matches its processing performance.” Read the rest of this entry ?