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Web Changes & Latest UpdatesThis is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.
For feature story of Amy Endo, CPOT in the Star Bulletin click here |
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OPTIX, AQuify 5 Minute MPS New from CIBA Last week, CIBA Vision introduced its new O2OPTIX silicone hydrogel contact lens for daily wear. Using CIBA's silicone hydrogel and surface technology, O2OPTIX offers oxygen transmissibility of 138 Dk/t @ -3.00, higher than other daily wear lenses. CIBA will offer the lens in a single base curve (8.6mm) in spherical powers from -1.00D to -6.00D, and will expand the range next year. It is readying a toric version of O2OPTIX for release. CIBA Vision also introduced AQuify 5 Minute Multi-Purpose Solution (MPS) last week. Says CIBA Vision North America Vice President Jeff Cohen, "With a speedy, 10-second rub and five-minute soak, AQuify 5 Minute MPS users can rapidly and effectively care for their soft contact lenses then get on with their lives |
| Very new, high fashion, hip and changeable lenses, here comes Transitions. click here for more information. |
| Vitamin Supplements May Prevent Cataracts Like a recent report about the benefits of vitamins for age-related macular degeneration, a new study of 478 women found that vitamins C and E along with lutein and zeaxanthin may help prevent cataracts. Vitamin C showed the strongest relationship between increased intake levels and a lower incidence of cataracts, according to the study, which was published in the July issues of The Archives of Ophthalmology. |
| Ciba launches its new Dailies "One Day Disposable Contact Lenses, Focus Progressive Bifocal Soft Contact Lenses.", Ciba Night & Day. |
| Visx receives FDA approval to treat Myopia up to -12 and astigmatism up to -4 , and Hyperopia up to +6 and -1 astigmatism with new Laser Surgery |
| Available now -- Johnson & Johnson New Advance, Acuvue 2, & Disposable Bifocal Soft lenses , a new line of colored contact lenses, Colorblends by Wesley Jessen is hot & very popular!. |
| Health Updates--Viagra, Osteoporosis, Medicate Updates, Walking & Aging, and more, click here. |
World & Environmental Facts
| Six of the first eight months of 1998 were marked by all-time high global temperature records. World getting warmer. Economic loss from weather-related natural disasters set a new record of $92 billion, more than the entire decade of the 1980's. Warmer temperatures mean more acceleration of melting, and may cause the inundation of |
| Every week, the world's urban centers are increased by more than one million people. |
| China accounts for half of world pork consumption. |
| World population is projected to grow to 8.8 billion in 2050 with almost all the increase in developing countries.. Pakistan is projected to surpass U.S. by 2050. World population will exceed 6 billion by end of this year. |
| Over exploited marine fish species jumped from zero in 1950 to 70 percent. |
| One in five fish eaten today was raised on a fish farm. Aquaculture is booming. Fishermen are catching and marketing fish that were once considered inedible. |
| Of the world's 6 billion people, 1.3 billion are living on $1 a day or less. |
| World forests are still declining. The United States, western Europe, Japan (less than 15% of the world's population) consume 66% of the world's paper supply. Paper production accounts for 40 percent of the world's industrial wood use. |
| Wind power grew at 26 percent, and sales of solar cells jumped 43 percent. Perhaps, we are finally embarking on the beginning of the last days of the age of oil. |
| 3/4ths of the car factories to be built during the next three years will be in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. |
| Water scarcity is emerging as a serious constraint on efforts to increase world food production. Spreading water shortages threaten to reduce the global food supply by 10 percent. |
| Many governments with rapidly growing populations are showing signs of demographic |
| Government rely too much on taxes on jobs and investments and too little on resource depletion and pollution. Using taxes instead of regulations, governments can set targets for environmental protection and markets can do what the do best, finding the cheapest ways to hit those targets. |
| The number of fast food restaurants in the US has more than doubled since 1970. |
| Every human being harbors about 500 synthetic chemicals that were nonexistent before 1920. |
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Edwin Y. Endo, OD
Establishes Internet Presence
