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Aug 17, 7:31 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Denisse Moreno 10/26/17 AT 11:46 AM Wearing crazy-colored contact lenses might complete a costume look, but health experts are warning against the accessories.Many contact lenses sold online or over the counter are not sold legally and are not approved by U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA needs to approve contact lenses because they are considered medical devices, even decorative sets.Risks Of Wearing Halloween or Other Decorative Contact LensesWearing unprescribed decorative contact lenses can lead to an infection, blindness, decreased vision, itchy or watery red eyes or a cut or scratch on the top layer of the eyeball. The contact lenses that are not purchased under a prescription might not have the right fit for the user’s eye, which could scratch the cornea, which is needed to focus most of the light that enters the eye.“[The] fitting … [Read more...] about Health Experts: Halloween Costume Contact Lenses Cause Infection, Irritation

Aug 17, 7:34 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Benjamin Fearnow @BFearnow21 07/16/17 AT 4:10 PM A “routine” cataract surgery uncovered nearly 30 contact lenses stuck together in two separate chunks in a 67-year-old British woman’s eye.Initially published in the British Medical Journal on July 5, the incident at Solihull Hospital in England has piqued the curiosity of eye patients and doctors alike with its peculiar ophthalmological fallout. The “blueish mass” was written off by the patient as simple discomfort caused by dry eyes or old age, The Bellingham Herald reports.Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee of ophthalmology, writes that the first clump found in the woman’s eye during her scheduled cataract surgery contained 17 contact lenses stuck together. A second set of 10 contacts were found grouped together on the same eyeball during continued examination. The … [Read more...] about Doctors Find Nearly 30 Contact Lenses Stuck In Woman’s Eye During ‘Routine’ Cataract Surgery

Aug 17, 7:20 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury World By Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan 08/17/18 AT 7:20 AM Doctors removed a contact lens that was stuck in a British woman’s eyelid for 28 years, a recently published report in the journal BMJ Case Reports states.According to the report, the now 42-year-old woman was hit in the left eye by a shuttlecock when she was 14-years-old and thought the lens had fallen out.She visited the doctor after her upper eyelid became swollen and had no idea she had been carrying the lens for almost three decades. An MRI scan showed a cyst behind her left eye. On doing a surgery to remove the cyst, the contact lens was revealed, completely intact. The lens cracked while trying to remove it. However, the surgery did not harm the woman’s vision and she made a full recovery once the lens was taken out.“We can infer that the lens migrated into the patient's left … [Read more...] about Are Contact Lenses Safe? ‘Lost’ Lens Retrieved From Eyelid After 28 Years

A MUM has spoken of the “miracle” which restored her sight after a parasite burrowed into her left eye when she swam wearing contact lenses. Hotel financial controller Emma Jenkins, 39, from Bournemouth, Dorset, was on holiday at a caravan park in Scotland when she took a dip in the on-site pool without removing her lenses. Back at home a week later, she began to suffer from severe pain in her left eye. Emma went to see her GP but just three days later, lost her sight thanks to a microscopic bacteria causing an ulcer which destroyed her cornea. The mother of two said: “I had no idea that wearing contact lenses in the pool was so risky. I left them in so I could see. “It’s really frightening how quickly it happened. I was only swimming for about 20 minutes, yet it cost me the sight in one eye. “When I got out of the pool, my left eye was irritated, so I went back to our caravan and took my lenses out, as it was hurting so much.” Over the next … [Read more...] about Mum goes blind after parasite BURROWS into her eye – after swimming with her contact lenses in

All antitrust lawyers understand the dangers of price discussions with competitors. But even vertical price discussions—those with suppliers or retailers—can later raise antitrust issues. The most recent vivid examples are the cases Johnson & Johnson is defending against Costco and others after it imposed a Colgate program following discussions with various resellers. But two other, smaller cases decided this year illustrate the danger of vertical price discussions. While the defendants prevailed in both, the years of litigation necessary to achieve those victories show the dangers of price discussions with third parties. Hannah’s Boutique, Inc. v. Surdej, et. al. In Hannah’s Boutique, Inc. v. Surdej, et. al., (2015 WL 4052404, 7/2/15 ND Ill.) a new Chicago-area retailer of prom dresses (Hannah’s) sued its larger, older rival (Peaches) under various state and federal antitrust theories, including group boycott and vertical … [Read more...] about Pricing Discussions and Allegations of Agreements: 2015 Cases Not Involving Contact Lenses