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Future of Optics: The ultimate contact lens

Lyndon Jones and Karen Walsh evaluate the accuracy of predictions made 20 years ago and identify where contact lenses will be in 2040

Future of Optics: The shape of lenses to come

Professor Mo Jalie presents a few thoughts on spectacle lens development in the ...

Development in multifocal contact lens design

Neil Retallic and Keiji Sugimoto ask whether multifocal contact lens technology ...

Changing the trajectory

Mark Halling explains to Andrew McClean how CooperVision’s Brilliant Futures ...

Multifocals: Multiple choice

Multifocal contact lenses grow in sophistication every year to better offer ...

Good things come in small packages

Mike Hale talks to Neil Retallic about the launch of Menicon’s Miru 1day Flat ...

Trends in UK contact lens prescribing 2020

Professor Philip Morgan reports on the 25th annual Eurolens Research survey ...

Daily disposables: Comfort and convenience

Mike Hale rounds up some of the top daily disposable contact lenses currently ...

Myopia: Improving lifestyles

Andrew McClean speaks to three patients who participated in the clinical trial ...

Contact lenses: Products for myopia

Optician rounds up the contact lenses available to UK practitioners for the ...

Looking at labs: Emergency dispensing

Mike Hale talks to several labs about what is available for practices offering ...

Toric lens surface as a 'cap' (top right)

Torics: Top choices for astigmatic patients

Torics: Market round-up

Optician details some of the toric contact lenses available on the UK market today

Clariti 1 day: A continuous improvement story

Clariti 1 day

Marcella McParland and Anna Sulley examine the material, lens design and clinical performance of Clariti 1 day sphere, toric and multifocal lenses

Looking at labs: Investing in the future

Investing in the future

Yiannis Kotoulas reports on a recent visit to Lenstec Optical’s site in Caerphilly

More powers to play with

Optician rounds up the multifocal contact lens products that suppliers are most keen to promote this autumn

Investing in the future

Mike Hale travels to Kent to visit PKP Optics and see the prescription house’s new digital surfacing equipment in operation

With an eye on the road

Optician takes a look at some of the best ophthalmic lenses and sunglasses designed to help aid visual performance behind the wheel

Focus on the new at BCLA

Photochromic contact lenses, myopia control and extended depth of focus designs were creating a buzz at the BCLA, Chris Bennett reports

Practitioner and patient experience with a silicone hydrogel, daily disposable contact lens

Practitioner and patient exper

David Webley and Mailie Fournier take a look at findings from a recent survey into the performance of the clariti 1 day contact lens

In focus: Can light management grow the contact lens business?

Light management

Johnson and Johnson Vision hopes to create a new contact lens category with its photochromic contact lens, Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Light Intelligent Technology. Chris Bennett finds out more

Cantor wins loyalty in specialist CL market

Cantor & Nissel has carved its own niche as a manufacturer of specialist lenses for a full range of prescriptions and patient conditions. Joe Ayling visited the company’s Northamptonshire headquarters to interview long-standing chairman David Cantor