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 IACLE Information Interface
November 2006
Information Interface is an IACLE-provided resource that 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 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.
Examining the Eyes of an Older Person (a medical perspective)
http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/6215
Transparent Measures Are Essential for Coordinating and Rewarding Quality Improvement in Healthcare
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547300
A Survey of Neurologists on Bothersome Patient Behaviors
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/546878_1
Possible Increase in Nonbacterial Infections in Corneal Ulcers Among Contact Lens Users
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547936?src=mp
Is the Food Industry Playing Games With Our Children?
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547523?src=mp
Visual Outcome in LASIK Patients Improved With Femtosecond Laser
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548024?src=mp
The European Youth Heart Study — Physical Activity Is a Medical Necessity
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547349?src=mp
The Itching, Burning Eye: Diagnostic Algorithm and Management Option
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547387?src=mp
Vitreous Floaters
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547388?src=mp
The Antidote to Simplistic Health Journalism
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548299?src=mp
An Overview of Adult Learning Processes
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547417?src=mp
Contact Lens Spectrum – 2006 November Issue
www.clspectrum.com
Managing Ocular Surface Irritation in a Busy Specialty Practice
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=13141
10 Steps to a Better Slit Lamp Examination
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=13142
Soft Lens Daily Cleaners: What's Available?
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=13148
Market Your Contact Lens Practice — Over and Over Again
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=13150
Formcon Contact Lens Design for Keratoconus
http://www.clspectrum.com/article.aspx?article=13152
Optometric Management – 2006 November Issue
www.optometric.com
Bandage Contact Lenses to the Rescue
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71786
It's Not about the Exam, It's about the Experience
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71793
Ten Reasons to Prescribe Silicone Hydrogel Soft Torics
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71792
Perception is Everything
http://www.optometric.com/article.aspx?article=71804
Review of Optometry Online – 2006 November Issue
www.revoptom.com
The Genetics of Corneal Dystrophies
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13021.htm
Be the First to Detect Thyroid Disease
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_13022.htm
Review of Ophthalmology Online – 2006 November
www.revophth.com
GP Lens Institute Website and Symposia– 2006 November
www.rgpli.org
Delivered: November 21: Incorporating GP Multifocals into Your Practice with Doug Benoit, OD
Fluorescein Pattern Identification Guide – 1
http://www.gpli.info/fluorescein1.htm
Silicone Hydrogels Website – 2006 November
www.siliconehydrogels.org
Effect of Dry Eye Lubricant Drops on Symptomatic Silicone Hydrogel Wearers
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/posters/latest.asp
The Next Generation
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/in_the_practice/index.asp
Silicone Hydrogels at the BCLA 2006 Part II
http://www.siliconehydrogels.org/meeting_synopsis/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 – 2006
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. 2006 – November
A novel method to measure oxygen permeability and transmissibility of contact lenses
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2006.00080.x
Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology – 2006 November
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/ceo
New devices and clinical implications for measuring corneal thickness
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01395.x
Comparison between central corneal thickness measurements by ultrasound pachymetry and optical coherence tomography
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01343.x
Spontaneous resolution of corneal oedema following Descemet's detachment
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01319.x
Optometry & Vision Science – 2006 November Issue
www.optvissci.com
Contact Lens & Anterior Eye – Next Issue December 2006 (formerly: J of the Brit CL Assoc)
www.intl.elsevierhealth.com/journals/clae/
Eye & Contact Lens – Next Issue December 2006 (formerly the CLAO Journal)
http://www.claojournal.org
Investigative Ophthalmology - 2006 November Issue
www.iovs.org For faster access outside North America use: http://intl.iovs.org
Accommodative Facility in Eyes with and without Myopia
http://intl.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/47/11/4725
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica Next Issue December 2006
www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1395-3907
NZ Optics
www.nzoptics.co.nz
In Contact
http://www.nzoptics.co.nz/incontact/2006/nov06.htm
The Ocular Surface
http://www.theocularsurface.com/
Indices to the 2006 issues:
http://www.theocularsurface.com/ArticlesV4N1.htm
http://www.theocularsurface.com/ArticlesV4N2.htm
http://www.theocularsurface.com/ArticlesV4N3.htm
http://www.theocularsurface.com/ArticlesV4N4.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 November)
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns
Breakthrough sheds light on cause of diabetes
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10812&feedId=online-news_rss20
Alcohol may offer protection against arthritis
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10815&feedId=online-news_rss20
Red light debut for exotic 'metamaterial'
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10816&feedId=online-news_rss20
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 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
Articles and information selected by Lewis Williams, MOptom, PhD, IACLE Secretariat, Sydney.
Questions or comments can also be sent to iacle@iacle.org.
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