Simon Jones

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Study questions efficacy of myopia interventions

1 month ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

An analysis of data from more than 100 studies and 17,000 children has questioned the effectiveness of myopia management interventions across medicine, light therapy, ophthalmic lenses and contact lenses. The review, published in the Cochrane Library, sought to assess the comparative efficacy and safety of myopia management interventions and generate a relative ranking. Most studies were conducted in China or other Asian countries (66.3%), and North America (14.4%).
Simon Jones: Audiology’s screen time moment?

1 month ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

No sooner had regulation around noise-cancelling in-ear headphones with self-testing functionality been relaxed in the UK than fresh doubt was raised by audiologists that their overuse might be contributing to impairment in hearing skills.
Simon Jones: The bright side of ageing - Optician Online

1 month ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

I try not to think about getting older, but two visual issues are making that rather difficult. The first, presbyopia, can’t be avoided; it comes for us all. Despite making it well into my 40s without so much as a ‘starter progressive’ or ‘booster’ lens, it’s time to accept, and maybe even embrace presbyopia.
Mainline agrees dry eye deal with InMode

1 month ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

Mainline Instruments will distribute the Envision suite of dry eye treatments in the UK after it signed an agreement with InMode. The Envision platform features non-surgical dry eye treatments that focusdelicate subdermal layers in the periorbital area; including Lumecca-I intense pulsed light; Forma-I thermal bipolar radiofrequency and Morpheus8 fractional skin treatment to stimulate the underlying layers of the dermis.
Simon Jones: I may have been wrong about smart glasses

2 months ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

This may not come as a surprise to many of you, but I’ve always been something of a cynic when it comes to smart eyewear. Well over a decade of near misses, ‘next big things’ and poorly implemented products has led me to the conclusion that the concept isn’t really for me. Call me a Luddite, old fashioned, whatever you want, but I’m yet to see a use case that I think will benefit my day-to-day life.
In Focus: EssilorLuxottica encourages embracing a wearable future - Optician Online

2 months ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

Delegates at Transitions Academy 2025 saw a vision for supercharged smart eyewear and new forms of patient care. Simon Jones reports from Orlando Wearables and the future of clinical care took centre stage at Transitions Academy 2025 held February 2-5 in Orlando, with showcases of how smart eyewear and new patient care delivery methods were likely to change optical practices within the next few years.
Retail: Holla at Iolla - Optician Online

2 months ago | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

Direct-to-consumer eyewear brands have been on an interesting journey over the past decade. Probably the most well-known example remains Warby Parker in the US, which ripped up the online eyewear retail manual at the start of the 2010s with a $99 frame and single vision lens offering. However, it quickly discovered that ‘traditional’ optical practices were not particularly happy with consumers coming in and asking for fitting of their glasses they had purchased online.
Man United open talks with PSV over loan move for forgotten defender

2 months ago | msn.com | Simon Jones |James Cohen

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Man United open talks with PSV over loan move for forgotten defender

2 months ago | msn.com | Simon Jones |James Cohen

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Simon Jones: Listen up - Optician Online

Jan 24, 2025 | opticianonline.net | Simon Jones

Cast your minds back to the autumn of last year (Over the counter culture, September 13, 2024), where, in this very column, I talked about the hearing aid functionality included in the newly launched Apple AirPods Pro 2 and what it could mean for the audiology crossover within optometry. I didn’t think it would only be four months before we were talking about it again, but new government guidance on the sale of hearing aids has expedited the conversation somewhat.