Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has announced the launch of its 2025 World Sight Day Challenge, scheduled to take place during the months of September and October. Held in conjunction with World Sight Day, which is observed this year on Oct. 9 and annually on the second Thursday of October, the Challenge aims to support the…
The Education Committee of the Global Specialty Lens Symposium (GSLS) invites the submission of abstracts for the presentation of Free Papers and Posters to be held January 7-10, 2026 at the Paris Las Vegas. The committee seeks topics including new and innovative concepts, clinical cases and research on all aspects of contact lenses (such as…
Past CLMA president, Dr. Glenn Young, passed away May 6, 2025 at the age of 95. Dr. Young was a 1952 graduate of the Chicago School of Optometry and enjoyed a successful career in optometry. He founded and ran Custom Contact Lens Laboratory in New Orleans for more than 30 years. He served as CLMA president…
To help bridge the gap from student to practicing clinician, CooperVision recently hosted its 2025 New Graduate Summit, welcoming more than 100 new doctors of optometry for two multi-day educational events designed to support this transition. Held on both coasts, the Summits provided practical guidance on topics ranging from employment contracts to financial planning to…
The Contact Lens Institute (CLI) has released a new infographic that illustrates how perceptions of contact lenses, used by millions of people worldwide, may differ by country and continent, specifically in aspects of how they are evaluated, purchased and worn. The synopsis precedes the publication of CLI’s forthcoming See Tomorrow initiative report surrounding consumer digital…
BostonSight announced it has elected Mr. Michael (Mike) Nash and Mr. Ramam Atmakuri to the BostonSight Board of Directors. Mr. Nash, now a Customer Experience and Technology consultant and mentor, was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at HP Inc. where he led all aspects of Customer Experience Strategy, Measurement and…
Screens Down, Eyes Up: Myopia Awareness Week 2025 Brien Holden Vision Institute (BHVI), an Australia-based not-for-profit research and development organization with an international focus on vision research, together with Review of Myopia Management, has announced the launch of Myopia Awareness Week 2025, a global initiative to bring attention to the growing epidemic of myopia in…
Alcon has announced its financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2025. For the first quarter of 2025, sales were $2.5 billion, flat on a reported basis and up 3 percent on a constant currency basis, as compared with the same quarter of the previous year, the company stated. Vision care net sales,…
CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO) and a leading manufacturer of contact lenses, announced it has reached a significant milestone in its pioneering net plastic neutrality initiative. Eyecare professionals and contact lens wearers have now prevented the equivalent of more than half a billion plastic bottles from entering the world’s oceans, the company said,…
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Eef van der Worp published A Guide to Scleral Lens Fitting, a landmark resource that has shaped scleral lens education worldwide. Developed with insights from top experts and backed by Bausch + Lomb, the 66-page guide remains a go-to reference, with over 100,000 downloads. Dr. van der Worp aimed to make…
