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J&J Contact Lens Gets Expanded Approval (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday said the Food and Drug Administration broadened the approved uses of its Acuvue Oasys contact lenses to include 7 days of constant wear.
Experts Clear Up a Blurry Issue: How to Buy Contact Lenses Online (RedNova)
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Analysts predict online shopping will increase by 24 percent this holiday season. Despite this rise, many consumers are adverse to ordering health and eye care products online.
FDA OKs weeklong use of Vistakon contact lenses (The Business Journal of Jacksonville)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Vistakon's Acuvue Oasys contact lenses for up to a week.
Contact Lens - Acuvue® Oasys? With Hydraclear? Plus Receives FDA Approval For Extended Wear (Medical News Today)
VISTAKON®, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has granted an additional indication for ACUVUE® OASYS? Brand Contact Lenses with HYDRACLEAR? PLUS, approving the daily wear contact lens for up to six consecutive nights/seven days of extended wear.
Cooper Companies' Unit Announces New Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lens (PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance)
CooperVision, Inc., the contact lens unit of the Cooper Companies, Inc. , said today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Optometry that it expects that its new Biofinity silicone hydrogel contact lens will be available in the United States in the second half of 2006.
New Contact Lenses, Old Infection Risk (WebMD)
The newest extended-wear contact lenses have a similar risk of eye infections as older, soft lenses worn for fewer nights.
CooperVision Introduces PC Hydrogels: A Unique Category of Contact Lens Material for Daily Wear (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
CooperVision today introduced PC Hydrogels, a unique category of contact lens material for daily wear that offers excellent health and optimum comfort. Compared with competing silicone hydrogel lenses, including Acuvue® Advance and O2Optix1, clinical studies show that daily-wear patients prefer the comfort of the PC Hydrogel material.
New silicone hydrogel material in contact lens may help to reduce lens problems (PharmaBiz)
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Contact Lens Made With New Silicone Hydrogel Material May Help Reduce Most Frequently Reported Lens Problems (Medical News Today)
While a substantial proportion of daily wear soft contact lens wearers experience day-to-day challenges while wearing their lenses, findings from a new study show that lenses made with senofilcon A, a new generation silicone hydrogel material, were associated with a reduction in discomfort, dryness and other commonly reported problems associated with contact lens wear.
Study of 30-day extended wear contact lenses (News-Medical-Net)
A team of researchers led by the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute have determined that the corneal infection rate associated with the use of 30-day -extended-wear contact lenses made from silicone hydrogel is comparable to that previously reported for older lens types worn for fewer consecutive 24-hour periods.

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