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CLs can help some children, according to a report today from Contactlenses.co.uk: "Children who wear contact lenses instead of having primary intraocular lens (IOL) correction are less likely to have to undergo more than one surgical procedure to correct their unilateral congenital cataracts, a study has shown.
"Research published in the Archives of Ophthalmology details a study involving 114 infants with a unilateral congenital cataract."
The site also noted that many people suffer needlessly because of poor binocular vision, according to a study: "Those affected by regular headaches could be suffering from poor binocular vision, the Eye Care Trust has claimed.
"Some 12 per cent of people are affected by poor binocular vision, which means that the brain does not correctly process the images that are captured by the eyes."
In helping two patients deal with the
negative effects of keratoconus, even after corrective surgery, a Florida optomitist fit them with scleral contact lenses, according to the Florida Times Union. Keratoconus is the distortion of the cornea to the point that the patient told the Union-Times that he saw the world as if "looking at a kaleidoscope after swimming underwater for 12 hours."
There's never much news on weekends. Rather than hype some unimportant optical news. Here's some eye candy.
Sunglass manufacturer produced the video below. It has nothing to do with optics per se but it has great video and music.
Shortly after lunchtime, the moon passed between the sun and the moon, darkening a portion of the Earth, particular the area of Chile's Easter Island. Viewers used special glasses and other devices to "see" the solar eclipse. The next eclipse will be over Australia in November 2012.