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Etnia Barcelona Provides Opticians with 150,000 Pairs of Glasses

The Etnia Barcelona Foundation has launched its “Opticians With You” program, an international charitable project aimed at helping families negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

Since 2016, the Etnia Barcelona Foundation has supported nearly 50,000 families and, in particular, children from different social backgrounds, given the direct correlation between vision problems, drop-out rates and social integration difficulties.

This project aims to work to improve their visual health and quality of life. Given the current situation, the Etnia Barcelona Foundation has decided to expand its sphere of action and is taking the Opticians With You project even further.

This project was created to personally help individuals whose economic possibilities have suffered as a result of the pandemic. The Foundation, with the collaboration of opticians around the world, will send 150,000 frames from the brand, completely free of charge, to vulnerable individuals or families who need glasses and do not have access to them as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.

The project, which defends the right of individuals to have correct vision and a better quality of life, will be implemented through the opticians that participate in the Foundation’s Non-Profit Opticians program. These opticians play a fundamental role in identifying individuals or families in their communities that are going through hard times financially.

The Foundation’s usual partners have decided to join in on the initiative because they understand that this charitable endeavor is fundamental when we are faced with a global crisis. Opticians With You will run until December 31st.

Click HERE for the full press release.

OKIA Receives Intertek Green Leaf Mark Certification

OKIA has been awarded the Intertek Green Leaf Mark, a consumer product and systems verification that confirms your environmental claims have been independently verified.

The certification comes as a result of the company’s development of BIO-RPET, a revolutionary material that embraces the 3R eco concept (recycle / reduce / recover) and takes form in RESHAPE™, an upcycling eyewear collection crafted exclusively from five water bottles to produce one pair of eyeglasses.

The RESHAPE™ collection is made of 100% recycled PET material, a petroleum-based product. This material is also 100% BPA free and allows the production of frames with a high impact resistance. The upgraded version of RESHAPE™ can ultimately break down into carbon dioxide, water and biomass after a five-year biodegradation process.

Click HERE for the full press release.

The Exhuberant Dr. Monea

In this independent practice profile, Shan Khan, editor of Optik Magazine and contributor, showcases trailblazer Dr. Diana Monea, OD. Many may recognize her from her exuberant displays and outfits on her clinic’s Instagram, but we could not help but notice her dedication to community and her positive outlook in life.

Dr. Monea has been practicing in Western Canada since 1982, and she is the owner of three clinics – two in Calgary and one in Regina. In her over forty years in eye care, every decision she and her staff make revolves around one question: “How will this benefit the patient?” This question exemplifies her belief in the differences that quality care makes in a person’s life. Dr. Monea’s standard of care does not go unnoticed by her patients.

Dr. Monea’s many years in practice have certainly allowed her time to contemplate the core aspect of her business. But she argues this time of great uncertainty and change is an opportunity for small businesses, including many eye care providers, to develop their clientele, too.

Find out more about her in the June-July issue of Optik.

Click HERE to read the full article!

Salvatore Ferragamo Celebrates Summer

Inspired by brightness and sunshine, this Salvatore Ferragamo sunglass frame for him features a rectangular shape in subtle metal with a gold, gunmetal finish. The nappa leather inserts are integrated around the lenses and on the lower bar of the double bridge design. The iconic Gancini decorates the adjustable pads and the thin temples are engraved with the Ferragamo logo.

Featured model: SF221SL

Distributed by Marchon: www.marchon.com

Two ARVO Papers Provide New Insights for Contact Lens-Based Myopia Management with Children

Two scientific papers being presented as part of the ARVO (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology) 2020 virtual conference proceedings provide eye care professionals (ECPs) with new insights to aid contact lens-based myopia management with children. Both can be accessed from the ARVO Media library catalog within ARVOLearn. Abstracts will be published in Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science next month.

ReCSS Study Examines Safety of Pediatric Soft Contact Lens Wear

Robin Chalmers, OD, FAAO, Principal Investigator for the ReCSS study (Retrospective Cohort Study of Safety of Pediatric Soft Contact Lens Wear), led the effort on behalf of CooperVision as part of its FDA approval for MiSight® 1 day contact lenses.* The study retrospectively reviewed 4,611 clinical charts from 782 children across seven geographically and ethnically diverse private eye care practices in the United States and from 181 children in two randomized longitudinal clinical trials.

The record review included any clinical visits of children through age 16 who were first fit with soft contact lenses when 8 to 12 years old. Clinical records involving adverse events were assessed and classified by an independent expert medical panel. The annualized rate of infiltrative adverse events was very low (0.66%/year with a 95% CI 0.39–1.05) as was the annualized rate of contact lens papillary conjunctivitis (0.48%/year with a 95% CI 0.25-0.82). The study estimated a microbial keratitis rate of 7.4/10,000 years (95% CI 1.8–29.6) in soft contact lens wearers aged 8-16 years, comparable to the estimated rates in adult wearers.

Population-Based Centile Analysis Affirms MiSight® 1 day* Contact Lens Clinical Trial Outcomes

Ian Flitcroft, MA, DPhil, FRCOphth, organized a population-based centile analysis of refractive development to assess outcomes from the CooperVision MiSight 1® day contact lens myopia management three-year clinical study in the context of known growth rates of European children. Progression rates for refraction and annual progression were assessed for 113 children participating in the MiSight® 1 day study in Portugal, the United Kingdom and Canada. These were compared to centile calculations for 9,092 Irish children aged 8 to 17, derived from an anonymized sample of optometric health records.

The authors found that treatment led to less progression of myopia than would normally be observed in a standard European optometric practice, and that the control group behaved in the way that would be expected for a typical patient under an ECPs care.

Both studies were supported by grants from CooperVision.

Click HERE for the full press release.

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