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Coopervision Stock – Time to take another look?
Many people who follows stocks in the contact lens and optical sector have tended to avoid Coopervision (COO) over the past couple of years, and with good reason.  With falling sales in their specialty lens segment due to the increasing dominance of Vistakon’s Acuvue Advance for Astigmatism, lengthy delays and higher than anticipated costs in [...]
AC Lens Receives Award
BizRate.com announced today that AC Lens has joined their Circle of Excellence Platinum award winners for customer service. ACLens.com is the only contact lens retailer to be honored with the Platinum designation in the 9 year existence of the award. “We’re very excited to receive this prestigious award from Biz Rate. It shows how dedicated our [...]
Acuvue Trueye
Acuvue (Vistakon) are developing a silicone hydrogel one-day disposable contact lens.  The lens, called Acuvue Trueye, will be released in Europe (at least in the UK) later this fall, and is likely to be released in the USA sometime in 2009.   The lens is manufactured from a new material – Narafilcon A, and will likely [...]
CooperVision Biofinity
Coopervisions Biofinity lens is now available in a much wider range of parameters.  The lens parameters now span -12.00 D to +8.00.  The lens has been getting favorable reviews on the AC Lens web site, and we notice it is growing in popularity.  If you are not completely happy with your existing disposable silicone hydrogel [...]
AC Lens Walk Now For Autism
AC Lens will be participating in Autism Speaks, Walk Now For Austism. As many of you know, Autism is a brain development disorder in young children affecting as many as 1.5 million people in the USA. Team AC Lens has 17 people signed up with many more walkers expected. Here’s details of the walk: Walk Now For [...]
AC Lens Guest Blogger Program
The AC Lens guest blogger program is an opportunity for people outside ACLens.com to share their knowledge and expertise in the vision care industry with millions of AC Lens customers and business partners. This program is perfect for eye doctor’s, fashion guru’s, and students. We’re looking for new and unique information about contact lenses, reading glasses, [...]
Contact Lenses and UV Protection
Many, but not all, contact lenses have UV protection built-in (we generally point out the ones that do on the AC Lens web-site).  UV protection is very important because failure to protect the eyes from the harmful effects of the sun causes cataracts as well as various ocular malignancies.  Apparently, while most people are aware [...]