Cornea: studies discuss tear film and contact lens wear, presbyopia and adaptive optics, dry eye treatments and more.

Review of Optometry, May, 2006 by Shovlin, Joseph P.

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) meeting is full of compelling cornea abstracts. That's what makes picking just a handful of them to cover in Review of Optometry each year so difficult. That said, here are reports on contact lenses, cornea and dry eye that I feel have great clinical relevance.

(Visit www.arvo.org for further information on each abstract and to check out others.). Tears and Contact Lens Wear Dry eye symptoms often go hand-in-hand with soft contact lens wear, and researchers in Japan think they've discovered why. They ...