GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 03/2024
Overview
Technology: The wettability of RGP contact lenses // Spiral-shaped optic // Report: 42nd ESCRS // Achromatopsia // Fitting Background: Presbyopinion // Mini scleral lenses // Business & Marketing: Supply chain security training
NEWS
Global Myopia Awareness Coalition has new member
The Global Myopia Awareness Coalition (GMAC) has announced the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) as its newest professional association member. This partnership expands GMAC’s global network and strengthens its efforts to raise awareness and promote action on childhood myopia worldwide, the association stated. BCLA plays a key role in advancing education, knowledge sharing and professional…
Bausch + Lomb acquires Elios Vision
Bausch + Lomb Corporation (NYSE/TSX: BLCO), a global eye health company, has announced that an affiliate has acquired Elios Vision, Inc., developer of the ELIOS procedure, a clinically validated, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery (MIGS) procedure. According to Bausch + Lomb, the acquisition offers opportunities to treat glaucoma effectively in conjunction with cataract surgery without implants…
CooperCompanies announces revenue growth
CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), a global medical device company operating through two business units, CooperVision and CooperSurgical, announced revenue growth for both its fiscal fourth quarter and for fiscal 2024 ended October 31, 2024. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $1,018.4 million, up 10 percent from last year’s fourth quarter, up 9 percent in constant…
An exciting step forward
BostonSight announced it has published a groundbreaking study: “Utilizing PROSE as a Drug Delivery Device for Preservative-Free Cyclosporine 0.05% for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease: A Pilot Study” in the journal Clinical Ophthalmology. “The publication of this landmark open-label, prospective, non-comparative clinical trial highlights the investigative approach, concepts, and many important scientific questions regarding…
Hecht: Founder Dieter Muckenhirn dies at 81
Mourning for a great personality Dieter Muckenhirn is considered the inventor of the aspherical contact lens. Together with partners, he founded Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH in 1978. He passed away on November 5. The management and employees of the contact lens manufacturer bid him farewell in an obituary. “It is with deep regret that we bid…
ARTICLES
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
Contact Lenses: Enhancing the comfort
The importance of contact lens characterization Why do wearers consider “soft” contact lenses (CLs) more comfortable than the “rigid” gas permeable (RGP) alternative? Thus, what does “comfort” mean from a scientific point of view? In this short article, we aim to emphasize the significance of meticulously characterizing and monitoring the physical parameters of CL materials…
State of the Art(ificial): Part 2
Understanding Soft Lens Design & Fitting Celebrating 50 years of EFCLIN, urges us to look back – but also gives us a good opportunity to look forward. Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting a lot of attention lately, almost to the point of becoming a fashion statement: everybody is into artificial intelligence, it seems. Several recent…
A historic therapeutic contact lens
Series on the Roth Collection Contact lenses are not only a valuable visual aid, they were also used soon after their invention as a bandage and, following the successful synthesis of water-retaining plastics, as a drug carrier on the eye. Their ability to compensate for irregular corneal astigmatism was recognized as early as the first…
Erik Larson: The Problem Solver
A visit to Larsen Equipment Design Together with his son Andrew, Erik Larsen shoulders a steel bar and carries it into his workshop. It smells of oil and metal here. A whole battalion of machinery is installed here. Large, old, new and small. And the really big ones, which easily have a footprint of 6…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.