Report issued on outbreak of serious eye infection linked with use of certain contact lens solution
...ide. Among the estimated 34 million contact lens wearers in the United States, microbial keratitis (corneal...timated to be 4 to 21 per 10,000 soft contact lens wearers depending on overnight wear, according to background information in the article. Fusarium is a fila...Study documents outbreak of fungal eye infections among contact lens wearers in Singapore
.... All cases of fungal keratitis among contact lens wearers from March 2005 through May 2006 were included in ...ucted. During the 15-month period, 66 contact lens wearers (68 affected eyes) were diagnosed with Fusarium keratitis. From this, the researchers estimated that...Reports characterize fungal eye infections among soft contact lens wearers
... cases of fungal keratitis among soft contact lens wearers from January 2004 to April 2006. The researchers ... additional cases of Fusarium in soft contact lens wearers that occurred during five weeks in early 2006. "Our report strongly suggests that the current clust...JRRD special issue on hearing and hearing loss
... commercially available cell phones by hearing aid wearers is evaluated in this article. Results suggest that certain transmission technologies create more interference than others and hearing aid wearers' use of microphone or telecoil coupling may influence their susceptibility to experiencing cell phone in...Nanotechnology goes glam: Cosmetics advances, challenges discussed at ACS meeting
...Aug. 31 An eye for color Today, contact lens wearers dont just see differently. Sometimes, they also look different. In the blink of an eye, colored contacts can turn your baby blues a deep green, or brown, or just about any other color. How do colored contacts work? The secrets in the chemistry. Drama...