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October 30, 2015May 20, 2026

PLAN B Showcases its Design Prowess

The Glacee collection is creating exclusive limited availability ultralux sunglass models. These models will encapsulate the creativity that is synonymous with the Glacee brand, unique, vast in style, shapes and colours. The latest exclusive model in this collection is the GL6720.

Ice Cream, also from Plan “B” Eyewear, creates two new models, the IC9013 and IC9020. IC9013 is designed for the petite woman, with a colour application that is completely proprietary and revolutionary to create a distinguished piece of art for the empty canvas, our face.

Distributed by Plan B Eyewear: www.planbeyewear.com

October 29, 2015May 20, 2026

Steel and Acetate Fusion from Xavier Garcia

Xavier Garcia adds four new models to its collection (Iona, Irma, Irina and Merino) available in four different colour combinations.

Built with steel plate block and acetate in a surprising new material combination that presents flattering, easy to wear shapes, the textured acetate details combine harmoniously with the colours on the uniform matte finished metals.

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October 29, 2015April 24, 2018

FTC Reportedly Investigating Valeant’s Acquisition of Gas Permeable CL Maker

According to the non-profit news organization ProPublica, the US Federal Trade Commission is investigating if Canadian pharmaceutical company Valeant illegally cornered the market for a material used in gas permeable lenses.

Valeant disclosed on Monday, October 19, that it had received a letter from the FTC regarding its acquisition of Paragon Vision Sciences, a manufacturer of gas permeable lenses, but did not comment further.

According to ProPublica, the FTC is concerned that Valeant’s acquisitions of Baush + Lomb and Paragon Vision Sciences now give Valeant monopoly control over the gas permeable market. Valeant now controls 85 to 90 percent of the GP lens supply chain, says Jan Svochak, president of the Contact Lens Manufacturers Association.

Valeant shares lost one third of their market value last week.

Further information: http://www.propublica.org/article/federal-investigators-looking-at-valeant-contact-lens-dealings

October 28, 2015April 24, 2018

Watching Movies Improves Vision in Children with Amblyopia

Popular children’s movies, combined with dichoptic training, offer a novel approach to treating amblyopia, according to a new report by researchers affiliated with the Department of Ophthalmology at McGill University and the Retina Foundation of the Southwest in Dallas, Texas.

The technique, published in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), involves the images of a popular movie sent to each eye individually, with blobs obscuring portions of the film. The blobs were shaped so that the entire screen could only be seen with binocular vision, with the image in the stronger eye presented in reduced contrast to overcome suppression.

”Children achieved 1-4 lines of improvement in visual acuity with just six sessions (nine hours) of dichoptic (both eyes looking at target at same time) movie viewing over two weeks,” explained Dr. Eileen Birch, of UT Southwestern Medical Centre. “Patching, by comparison, requires 120 hours of treatment to achieve 1 line of improvement in amblyopic children who have already been treated with spectacles for 12-16 weeks.”

Whether the improvement is persistent is yet to be determined, but the researchers are hopeful that these preliminary results will be confirmed in a controlled clinical trial.

Further information: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=157319&CultureCode=en

(Photo from Retina Foundation of the Southwest)

October 27, 2015May 20, 2026

Newly Released Limited Edition Nike Sunglasses Inspired by the Burnside Skatepark

Paying tribute to Nike’s roots in Portland Oregon, Nike Vision welcomes the Unrest and Flatspot to its collection. The Nike Unrest replicates the graffiti found on the Burnside skate park by putting the same graphics on the outside of the temples. Inside the temple features the latitude and longitudinal coordinates of the skate park. The Flatspot was designed with a flat panel on the lower eyewire of the lens, mimicking the flatspot on the skate board wheel created by powersliding. Both models are created with Nike Max Optics Lens Technology and maintain a light weight injected 6 base design.

Distributed by Marchon: www.marchon.com