GlobalCONTACT
ISSUE 02/2025
Overview
Report: EFCLIN Congress // BCLA Clinical Conference // Market Data Report // Company Profile: Sub Micron Tooling // Fitting Background: Powerful profiles // Business & Marketing: AI in Training // Special: 100th Issue of GlobalCONTACT
NEWS
CLI study about contact lens adoption
New consumer research from Contact Lens Institute (CLI) indicates there is substantial opportunity for increased contact lens adoption by Gen Z, as well as identifying purchase drivers that the eyecare community can employ to encourage contact lens usage, the organization announced. The data indicates an 8 percent difference in Gen Z contact lens wear (35…
Focused inSights 2025: myopia management
The Vision Council has announced the release of a new two-part research report titled, Focused inSights 2025: Myopia Management, that combines a global analysis of pediatric myopia treatment strategies with a survey of U.S. eyecare providers. The complementary studies provide a unique perspective on the current landscape of childhood myopia care, exploring how treatment options…
Topcon announces investment in Senseye to advance mental health diagnostics
Topcon Healthcare a global leader in digital health and ocular data solutions, has announced a strategic investment in Senseye, a U.S.-based developer of a mental health diagnostic platform powered by ocular biomarkers, marking the company’s first investment in technology for mental health and neuropsychiatry. Leveraging the eye as a non-invasive window into the brain, Senseye…
CooperVision with environmentally friendly packaging
Partners for more than 20 years, TotalEnergies and CooperVision have taken their relationship to the next level by enabling the use of ISCC Plus-certified Polypropylene1, in blister packs for certain CooperVision contact lenses. TotalEnergies contributes to the CooperVision’s “Plastic Made Better” program by implementing certified renewable polypropylene through a mass balance approach in certain CooperVision…
OGS kicks off 2025 World Sight Day Challenge
Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has announced the launch of its 2025 World Sight Day Challenge, scheduled to take place during the months of September and October. Held in conjunction with World Sight Day, which is observed this year on Oct. 9 and annually on the second Thursday of October, the Challenge aims to support the…
ARTICLES
Pediatric Scleral Lenses
The care and treatment of vision problems in childhood is particularly challenging, especially when conventional visual aids are not sufficient. A 21-year retrospective study by Carrasquillo et al. highlights the long-term effects and benefits of scleral lenses in pediatric care.
Presbyopinion
Everyone has an opinion on presbyopia. But let’s stick to the facts and answer this question: What is presbyopia, exactly, and what can we do about it? Part I here in GlobalCONTACT covered the mechanism of accommodation and presbyopia as well as definitions of the condition.
Contact lenses in their DNA
Hecht Contactlinsen GmbH is based in Au near Freiburg, Germany, and is one of the leading manufacturers of customized contact lenses. Founded in 1978, the company specializes in individual solutions for contact lenses and offers high-quality RGPs as well as soft contact lenses. In addition, several subsidiaries have been added over the years.
The Summit of Specialty Contacts
From November 23 to 24, 2024, everything in Rome revolved around specialty contact lenses. It is the only international meeting of its kind in Europe and has brought together opinion leaders from over 25 countries in the field of specialty contact lenses to share their experiences, research results and innovative ideas.
LenzBox: Innovative contact lens cleaning
Efficient contact lens care for soft contact lenses is particularly important for long-term and safe contact lens wear. At the last Opti Munich 2024, a start-up presented a completely new system that not only simplifies contact lens care, but also manages the amount of care product used sustainably.
Chat GPT and other AI – a new language for the industry
An interview with CSEM machine learning expert Philipp Schmid ChatGPT and other AIs have recently caused a furor in virtually all professions where people write, program or design. How much dust are these supposedly general-purpose AIs stirring up in the industry? The general-purpose AIs are kicking up an enormous amount of dust. But unlike 2016,…
LETTER
Employee, where are you?
Are you having trouble finding employees? And to keep them? There’s a specter haunting the EU – and unfortunately, it’s very real: The shortage of skilled workers. And it’s particularly noticeable in some EU countries. That’s because demographic change is in full swing here – and often more advanced than in other regions of the world.