Verum writes: Contact lenses that treat refractive error could open up a new therapeutic role for practitioners

Contact lenses that not only correct but also treat refractive error could open up a new therapeutic role for eye care practitioners, delegates at the British Contact Lens Association's annual Clinical Conference heard last weekend.

Professor Brien Holden of the Brien Holden Institute and Vision CRC in Sydney, Australia said that anti-myopia products, targeting both child and adult-onset myopia, would slow the progression of myopia and reduce the number of people with high myopia and related eye disease.

His colleague Dr Padmaja Sankaridurg described studies with spectacle and contact lenses designed to change the growth of the eye by optically manipulating the peripheral retinal image.