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We’re three short weeks away from Thanksgiving and the start of the very busy holiday season. AC Lens would like to remind everyone to think ahead about your vision needs. Here are some reminders and tips to help keep costs down and eliminate some hassle during the busiest time of year.
Make sure your prescription does [...]
AC Lens would like to caution our customers who may be thinking about buying a pair of halloween contact lenses. The FDA warns that consumers can harm their eyes from wearing an unprescribed pair of contact lenses.
Scary and decorative lenses are a great addition to most costumes but always go through proper channels to protect [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ciba has launched a new daily disposable contact lens - Dailies Aqua Comfort. According to Ciba, this is a premium product intended to supplement their array of daily disposable contacts, rather than to replace the existing Focus Dailies contact lens. The lens comes in a different base curve (8.7 versus 8.6 for Focus Dailies) and [...]
Contact lens industry sources, as well manufacturers report continued strong growth in the daily disposable category of the contact lens market. This growth has been spurred on by widespread news coverage of the eye infections reported last year as being due to Renu and other contact lens cleaning solutions. By avoiding the use of solutions [...]
