By Staff
Friday, May 26, 2023 2:00 PM
On Saturday, June 3, hundreds of cyclists will be gearing up and riding together in Langley, B.C. for Fighting Blindness Canada’s 10th Annual Cycle for Sight West Coast fundraising event in support of advancing vision research and bringing hope to the estimated 1.2 million Canadians living with vision loss.
By Staff
Friday, May 26, 2023 10:41 AM
Americans continue to be wasteful with their food, according to a new report from
Recycle Track Systems. The report found that Americans waste 60 billion tons of food, which is the equivalent to 120 billion pounds.
More than 40 percent of the entire U.S. food supply winds up unused. To put the numbers into perspective, this equals 325 pounds of food waste per person, per year.
Experts with the RTS said too many Americans are impulsive with food purchases or simply buy more than they are able to consume, unlike their global counterparts. They said that Americans also underutilize leftovers and food scraps, which can often be consumed.
Recently, legislators in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont have passed laws that restrict the amount of food waste going to landfills. Vermont’s “Universal Recycling Law,” banning food scrap waste entirely, triggered an increase in food bank donations by 40 percent.
By Staff
Friday, May 26, 2023 12:30 AM
Prevent Blindness to host Focus on Eye Health Summit; ECPs’ gross revenue increased, Jobson Tracker says; Transitions announces 2022 Transitions Innovation Awards winners; FTC hosts public workshop on ‘Eyeglass Rule’; and CDC reports cases and deaths from contaminated eye drops are growing all topped this week’s
VMAIL news feed. Click on the headlines below to catch up on anything you might have missed.
By Staff
Friday, May 26, 2023 12:27 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, a leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, will host the 12th annual Prevent Blindness Focus on Eye Health Summit on July 12-13, 2023, as a virtual interactive event. Expert presentations related to this year’s theme, “Why the Eye?” will engage diverse voices in discussions around vision health as it relates to public health, stimulate conversations around the challenges to equitable access to eyecare, explore new and unique collaborations across stakeholders, and identify opportunities to integrate vision and eye health into public health policies, practices and research advancement.
By Staff
Friday, May 26, 2023 12:21 AM
LAS VEGAS—
Percept Corp. has announced the company’s sponsorship of
AMCEMIG 2023, the Asociacion Mexicana de Cefaleas y Migranaa, a high-profile international headache symposium in Latin America organized by the Mexican Association of Headaches and Migraines in collaboration with the International Headache Society (IHS).
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 4:12 PM
As part of its multifaceted leadership in helping more eyecare professionals (ECPs) embrace myopia management, CooperVision is sharing insights from three new scientific abstracts supported by the company. One explores myopia rates in fast and slow progressors, while two others concentrate on optical interventions for residents of China with myopia.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 4:09 PM
As part of its multifaceted leadership in helping more eyecare professionals (ECPs) embrace myopia management, CooperVision is sharing insights from three new scientific abstracts supported by the company. One explores myopia rates in fast and slow progressors, while two others concentrate on optical interventions for residents of China with myopia.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 2:19 PM
A
new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration finds that Texas and New Mexico were the top producers of crude oil in 2022. Crude oil production rose 5.6 percent in the U.S. in 2022, reaching nearly 12 million barrels per day.
The largest production was found in the Permian Basin, which spans both Texas and New Mexico.
This is the third consecutive year that oil production grew more in New Mexican than other states. Production in New Mexico grew by 0.3 million barrels a day to reach 1.6 million barrels per day.
Year over year, crude oil production rose in the early part of 2023, averaging 1.2 million barrels per day. Experts believe that cruise oil production will continue to rise over the next two years, reaching up to 12.5 million barrels in 2023 and 12.7 million in barrels per day in 2024.
By Gwendolyn Plummer
Thursday, May 25, 2023 8:30 AM
NEW YORK—May is Healthy Vision Month, 30 days set aside by the Centers for disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Eye Institute (NEI) to promote the importance of taking care of the eyes—from annual, comprehensive eye exams to everyday habits that will protect eye health. Through its Vision Heath Initiative, the CDC has made a number of
resources available for free to all, including information about the basics of eye health, prevention and risk management and more. Infographics are also available for
download, which can be posted online or in the office.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 8:25 AM
Bring Your Son to Work Day was a success at
Eyes on Litchfield in Litchfield, Connecticut.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 8:20 AM
NEW YORK—In 1992, Congress passed Public Law 102-450, which designates May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month each year. May, chosen because of the arrival of the first Japanese immigrant to the U.S. on May 7, 1843, now represents “a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States,” according to
The Library of Congress. There’s no better time than now to learn about the incredible impact Asian Americans have had on the U.S. in all areas—and particularly in health care.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 8:15 AM
PLANTATION, Fla.—Although Small Business Month concludes within the week,
DHL Express continues to find ways to support these growing businesses year-round. Today, one of the leading providers of international express shipping services has launched its
GoGreen Giveaway to help U.S.-based small businesses grow more sustainably. Those who enter the DHL GoGreen Giveaway have the opportunity to win the grand prize, which includes a $10,000 international shipping stipend to apply to transport costs and GoGreen Plus services, good for up to 12 months; $20,000 worth of sustainable business consulting; and GoGreen Carbon Reporting.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 12:27 AM
NEW YORK—The national average for gross revenue at ECP locations increased last week, May 15 – 21, when compared with the previous week at a rate of 1 index point. That places gross revenue at a level 7 index points above where it was at this point in time (Week 21) when compared with last year (2022), 11 points above the same period in 2021, 31 points above 2020 (when COVID stay-at-home restrictions were in place), and 19 points above 2019, according to Jobson’s most recent Practice Performance Tracker.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 12:24 AM
MONTREAL—IRIS The Visual Group, a banner of the
New Look Vision Group, has launched IRIS-ai, a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology for the optometry industry in Quebec, in partnership with Montreal-based
DIAGNOS.
By Staff
Thursday, May 25, 2023 12:21 AM
SARASOTA, Fla.—
Black Pearl Vision, a Black-owned and woman-owned contact lens manufacturer, has acquired Ireland-based color contact lens manufacturer PolyDev, and expanded its signature product line to include opaque color contact lenses in toric, plano and spherical parameters.