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IACLE Information Interface

February 2007

Information Interface is a resource provided by IACLE.
It includes useful information and/or the location of information that can be accessed readily.

Information is gleaned monthly from newsletters, journals, abstracts, magazines, relevant websites, and professional associations, as well as manufacturers of contact lenses, lens care products, and clinical and/or research instrumentation.

For some websites, registration [at no charge] may be required for initial access. Some websites offer free electronic newsletters (e-zines).

Most journals offer abstracts at no charge but usually, full texts are not available free-of-charge unless you or your institution has an arrangement with the publishers, you are a member of an affiliated organization, you have a personal subscription, or you agree to pay for individual articles [often an expensive route to take]).

Ophthalmology
Medscape & Medscape Ophthalmology, MedPulse,
Week in Review - Medscape Today

Note: registration [no charge] may be required for your initial access to this very useful website. A regular electronic ophthalmological newsletter (e-zine) is also available from Medscape.
To subscribe, visit: https://profreg.medscape.com/px/newsletter.do and indicate your own area(s) of interest.

Online Health Research Is Widespread, but Few Check the Source and Date
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551520?src=mp
The Marketplace Can't Give Us the Drug Safety Data We Need
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551338?src=mp
Midday Napping Slows Heart Disease
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552173?src=mp
The Biopsychosocial Information Model: The New Disease Paradigm
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551933?src=mp
Antioxidant Vitamins May Increase Mortality
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552910?src=mp
Common Over-the-Counter Analgesics May Increase Hypertension Risk in Older Men
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552850?src=mp
Low-Carb Diets Safe and Effective for Weight Loss
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553258?src=mp
Product Allergen Watch: Triclosan
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552007?src=mp
Alzheimer's Disease
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/553256?src=mp
Reaffirming the Public Good
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551969?src=mp

Contact Lens Spectrum – 2007 February issue
www.clspectrum.com

Optometric Management – 2007 February issue
www.optometric.com

Topography:
A Clinical Pearl
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71851
Ditch the Itch
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71839
Benefits of Diagnostic Fitting for Bitoric GP Lenses
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71849
Special Fits for Special Eyes
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71850

Review of Optometry Online –2007 February issue
www.revoptom.com

Dry eye treatment conducted in isolation, without the consideration of multiple causal factors, is often doomed to failure
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13254.htm
LASIK vs. LASEK? It's a Draw
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13235.htm
New Class of Lipids Found
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13234.htm
DSEK: New Way to Foil Fuchs'
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13241.htm
Osmolarity and Dry Eye
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13240.htm

Review of Ophthalmology Online – 2007 February issue
www.revophth.com

Refractive Surgery and the Dry-Eye Patient
http://www.revophth.com/index.asp?page=1_13207.htm
Paving the Pastures: Urban Life and Allergy
http://www.revophth.com/index.asp?page=1_13206.htm

GP Lens Institute Website and Symposia– 2007 February
www.rgpli.org

Nothing new in the archive
The next online symposium is scheduled for April 17
Topic: GP Management of Keratoconus

Silicone Hydrogels Website – 2007 February
www.siliconehydrogels.org

Contact Lens Induced Papillary Conjunctivitis (CLPC) & High Dk SH Lenses
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/editorials/index.asp
Clinical Case: Management of Corneal Abrasion with Silicone Hydrogel Bandage Lens
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/in_the_practice/index.asp
Conformation of Lysozyme Deposited on Conventional and SH CLs Materials
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/posters/latest.asp
Increased Eotaxin in Tears of Patients Wearing Contact Lenses
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/featured_review/index.asp

Global Contact Website
www.gclabsite.com

The Interesting Web sites section is a comprehensive listing of the URLs of most relevant contact lens-related entities arranged under logical headings.

Clinical & Experimental Optometry 2007 – February issue
www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0816-4622 (Jan 2006 –)

From Jan/Feb 2006 edition, abstracts are available at no charge but full texts are only available to OAA members, CEOptometry subscribers, and staff of subscribing institutions, or by purchase of the particular articles.

Next issue March/April 2007

Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology – 2007 February
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/ceo

Next issue March/April 2007

Optometry & Vision Science – 2007 February Issue
www.optvissci.com

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye (formerly: J of the Brit CL Assoc) – No February 2007 issue yet.
www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/clae/

Next issue March 2007

Eye & Contact Lens – February 2007 (formerly the CLAO Journal)
http://www.claojournal.org

Next issue March 2007

Investigative Ophthalmology - 2007 February Issue

www.iovs.org For faster access outside North America use: http://intl.iovs.org

Contrast Sensitivity Function and Ocular Higher-Order Aberrations following Overnight Orthokeratology
http://intl.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/550

Contrast Sensitivity Function and Ocular Higher-Order Aberrations following Overnight Orthokeratology
http://intl.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/550
Role of Parental Myopia in the Progression of Myopia and Its Interaction with Treatment in COMET Children
http://intl.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/562
Corneal Innervation and Cellular Changes after Corneal Transplantation: An In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Study
http://intl.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/2/621

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica February 2007 issue
www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1395-3907

Inherited corneal opacifications with an unusual distribution
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0420.2006.00756.x

NZ Optics
www.nzoptics.co.nz In Contact

The Ocular Surface
http://www.theocularsurface.com/

Indices to the first 2007 issue:
http://www.theocularsurface.com/ArticlesV5N1.htm

Ophthalmic Teaching Resources

www.ophthalmic.hyperguides.com Free registration is required. A wide range of teaching materials is available. Topics offered lean towards the ophthalmological.

General Interest
NewScientist (several editions appeared in February)
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns

Self-appointed science censors exposed
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325893.500-selfappointed-science-censors-exposed.html
Bell Labs: Over and out
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325895.500-bell-labs-over-and-out.html

A game directed towards young contact lens wearers
A contact lens-related educational game is now available from Menicon. The game (Menigame: http://www.menigame.com/ ) targets younger (6 to 12 years of age) contact lens wearers and delivers clear messages about personal hygiene, lens care, and lens insertion and removal. The presentation is targeted well and it will be interesting to follow its effects on the intended audience. Given the audience’s familiarity with the web and ‘button-pushing’ and the simple graphical/comic interface employed, accessing all aspects of the game should prove to be easy for even the youngest player. A section directed to the wearer’s parents is also included as is a section on the Menicon Z Junior GP lens marketing campaign. This is a novel and innovative approach to marketing and wearer education and Menicon is to be commended for its initiative. The game is available in French and English at this time (mid-March, 2007) but other languages will follow.

Technology: General
www.slashdot.org
www.theregister.co.uk
www.theinquirer.org
www.dpreview.com (an excellent digital camera website)

IACLE is indebted to its sponsors for their generous support of IACLE’s initiatives in furthering global contact lens education

CIBA Vision
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care
Bausch & Lomb
CooperVision
AMO
Alcon Laboratories
Menicon Europe

IACLE also invites you to visit its website: www.iacle.org

Articles and information selected by Lewis WILLIAMS, MOptom, PhD
IACLE Secretariat, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

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