Eye Injury’ Category
FDA Ire Over Inadequate Contact Lens Recall
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration is promising to take action unless the company that manufactures contact lenses linked to dozens of injuries, takes more steps to publicize a recall.
The recall by CooperVision Inc. involves more than 600,000 Avaira Toric contact lenses, and was announced in August after reports of eye injuries by consumers. Several customers have come forward to complain about eye injuries, including torn corneas, chronic and severe pain and a number of other serious injuries as a result of wearing contact lenses. Some of these cases were reported back in April, but the recall was...
Promising New Research into Treatment for Traumatic Eye Injury
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Traumatic eye injuries in an accident do not receive the attention that is typically given to injuries like spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. However, eye injuries can have a similarly devastating impact on a person's life, severely restricting or eliminating his ability to work, and his ability to live his life.
Unfortunately, just as with a traumatic brain injury, eye injuries can be notoriously difficult to treat. A traumatic eye injury or a traumatic optic nerve injury occurs when there is severe head injury which causes inflammation of the optic nerve. The main course of treatment for these...
