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Prevent Blindness Declares March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to Encourage Eye Safety Practices, Eye Protection at Work

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has once again declared March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to encourage employers and employees to make eye safety and eye protection a priority on the job. Prevent Blindness offers a variety of free resources including workplace eye safety fact sheets, shareable social media graphics in English and Spanish, and, to help employers educate workers on eye protection and safety, Prevent Blindness offers the Workplace Safety module in the Healthy Eyes Educational Series.

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  • Prevent Blindness Provides Free Resources on Eye Safety, Blue Light and Digital Eye Strain, and More, to Encourage Employers and Employees to Protect Eyes at Work
    CHICAGO, Feb. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Prevent Blindness , the nation's leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has once again declared March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to encourage employers and employees to make eye safety and eye protection a priority on the job.
  • Prevent Blindness offers a variety of free resources including workplace eye safety fact sheets , shareable social media graphics in English and Spanish, and, to help employers educate workers on eye protection and safety, Prevent Blindness offers the Workplace Safety module in the Healthy Eyes Educational Series .
  • Contact with objects or equipment led to the majority of eye injuries and illnesses requiring days away from work in 2020.
  • In the event of any eye injury, Prevent Blindness offers the " First Aid for Eye Emergencies " resource.

Take Victory and Defend Your Well-being with LAC Legends(TM)

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Gone are the days when you lose focus during a quest or battling the final boss in your favourite computer game.

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  • Gone are the days when you lose focus during a quest or battling the final boss in your favourite computer game.
  • Elevate your cognitive abilities with LAC Legends(TM).
  • Furthermore, LAC Legends(TM) enhances an individual's well-being at home by combating viruses and supporting long-term health.
  • You may purchase it in LAC stores islandwide, or online on LAC's?website.

Do blue-light glasses really work? Can they reduce eye strain or help me sleep?

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Monday, September 25, 2023

Blue-light glasses are said to reduce eye strain when using computers, improve your sleep and protect your eye health. You can buy them yourself or your optometrist can prescribe them. But do they work? Or could they do you harm? We reviewed the evidence. Here’s what we found.

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Blue-light glasses are said to reduce eye strain when using computers, improve your sleep and protect your eye health. You can buy them yourself or your optometrist can prescribe them. But do they work? Or could they do you harm? We reviewed the evidence. Here’s what we found.

Read more:
Health Check: will I damage my eyes if I don't wear sunglasses?

What are they?

    • Blue-light glasses, blue light-filtering lenses or blue-blocking lenses are different terms used to describe lenses that reduce the amount of short-wavelength visible (blue) light reaching the eyes.
    • Most of these lenses prescribed by an optometrist decrease blue light transmission by 10-25%.
    • Standard (clear) lenses do not filter blue light.

Blue light is all around us

    • Outdoors, sunlight is the main source of blue light.
    • Indoors, light sources – such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and the screens of digital devices – emit varying degrees of blue light.
    • The amount of blue light emitted from artificial light sources is much lower than from the Sun.

Do they reduce eye strain?


    We found no benefit of using blue light-filtering lenses, over standard (clear) lenses, to reduce eye strain with computer use. This conclusion was based on consistent findings from three studies that evaluated effects on eye strain over time periods ranging from two hours to five days.

    Read more:
    Screentime can make you feel sick – here are ways to manage cybersickness

Do they help you sleep?

    • Six studies evaluated whether wearing blue-light filtering lenses before bedtime could improve sleep quality, and the findings were mixed.
    • So we do not yet know whether these lenses affect sleep quality in the general population.

Do they boost your eye health?


    We did not find any clinical evidence to support using blue-light filtering lenses to protect the macula (the region of the retina that controls high-detailed, central vision). None of the studies evaluated this.

    Read more:
    Macular diseases cause blindness and treatment costs millions. Here is how to look after yours

Could they do harm? How about causing headaches?


    We could not draw clear conclusions on whether there might be harms from wearing blue light-filtering lenses, compared with standard (non blue-light filtering) lenses. Some studies described how study participants had headaches, lowered mood and discomfort from wearing the glasses. However, people using glasses with standard lenses reported similar effects.

    Read more:
    Health Check: what causes headaches?

What about other benefits or harms?

    • First, most of the studies were for a relatively short period of time, which limited our ability to consider longer-term effects on vision, sleep quality and eye health.
    • Finally, we could not draw conclusions about the possible effects of blue light-filtering lenses on many vision and eye health measures, including colour vision, as the studies did not evaluate these.

In a nutshell

    • It is unclear whether these lenses affect vision quality or sleep, and no conclusions can be drawn about any potential effects on the health of the retina.
    • They can perform a thorough examination of your eye health and vision, and discuss any relevant treatment options.

Eyesafe and TÜV Rheinland Raise the Bar for Blue Light Screen Protectors

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Amidst increasing scientific and medical research on blue light exposure, Eyesafe and TÜV Rheinland are releasing updated accessory requirements, targeting the light filtered between 435-440 nanometers (nm), which poses the greatest risk to retinal health.1

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  • Amidst increasing scientific and medical research on blue light exposure, Eyesafe and TÜV Rheinland are releasing updated accessory requirements, targeting the light filtered between 435-440 nanometers (nm), which poses the greatest risk to retinal health.1
    ZAGG is the first company to achieve Eyesafe® Accessory Requirements 2.0 and TÜV Rheinland's xx% Blue Light Reduction certification with Glass XTR3 Screen Protection.
  • MINNEAPOLIS and SHANGHAI, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eyesafe, a world leader in blue light mitigation technology, and TÜV Rheinland Group, a global leader in third-party testing and certification, today announced Eyesafe® Accessory Requirements 2.0 and TÜV Rheinland's xx% Blue Light Reduction certification.
  • TÜV Rheinland has issued a flyer outlining blue light reduction requirements on screen accessories.
  • ZAGG is the world's first brand to achieve Eyesafe Accessory Requirements 2.0 and TÜV Rheinland's xx% Blue Light Reduction certification.

PROSE, THE GLOBAL LEADER IN PERSONALIZATION, DEBUTS AI-POWERED SKINCARE

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

NEW YORK, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Prose, the Brooklyn-based global leader in personalization, announces their expansion into skincare. The brand, known for delivering custom hair care designed for the individual, aims to offer an alternative to mass-produced skincare with their latest line: the only skincare system to offer truly personalized formulas, backed by science and powered by AI, that evolves with you over time.

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  • NEW YORK, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Prose , the Brooklyn-based global leader in personalization, announces their expansion into skincare.
  • The skincare system not only includes bespoke formulas to suit each individual's skincare needs, but also offers texture and fragrance customization, including a fragrance-free option for those with sensitive skin.
  • After such incredible success with hair care, skincare was the next natural step for Prose to continue as a leader in customized beauty.
  • Prose Custom Skincare is available for purchase across the United States and Canada on Prose.com.

Labatt Introduces NEW Blue Light Apple!

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

BUFFALO, N.Y., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Labatt Blue Light recently introduced a new fruit flavored light pilsner, Labatt Blue Light Apple. Labatt Blue Light Apple is a premium lager with natural, crisp apple flavor. Labatt Blue Light Apple joins Labatt Blue Light's other fruit flavored products, Blue Light Lime and Blue Light Grapefruit, as a limited release this summer.

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  • BUFFALO, N.Y., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Labatt Blue Light recently introduced a new fruit flavored light pilsner, Labatt Blue Light Apple.
  • Labatt Blue Light Apple joins Labatt Blue Light's other fruit flavored products, Blue Light Lime and Blue Light Grapefruit, as a limited release this summer.
  • After a year of slim cans, Labatt Blue Light Grapefruit and Blue Light Lime have returned in standard 12-ounce cans.
  • Labatt Blue Light Grapefruit and Blue Light Lime are now available.

TransMedia Group to Spread Blue Light IT's Warning That It's Not If, but When a Business Will be Hacked, But Cybersecurity Makes It Much Less Likely or Devastating

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

TransMedia Group says it will let hackers know there's a new cybersecurity sheriff in Internet town.

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  • TransMedia Group says it will let hackers know there's a new cybersecurity sheriff in Internet town.
  • So, hackers had better look for less protected prey than those under the watchful eye of Blue Light IT.
  • "While hackers try to hack businesses indiscriminately, companies protected by such dedicated cybersecurity as Blue Light IT provides are much less likely to be hacked," said TransMedia Group CEO Tom Madden.
  • Most likely they are an organized crime group using an off-the-shelf program for shear villainous intent to rob and profit.

HPO, in Collaboration with Eastman, Announces Upcoming Launch of High Energy Visible Light Filtering Film in the Transportation Space

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Eastman and High Performance Optics, Inc. (HPO) announced today that a selective High Energy Visible Light (HEVL) filtering window film for the transportation industry will be launched in Asia.

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  • Eastman and High Performance Optics, Inc. (HPO) announced today that a selective High Energy Visible Light (HEVL) filtering window film for the transportation industry will be launched in Asia.
  • For this new product launch, Frontier worked side by side with Eastman in the custom development of this solution.
  • Eastman’s launch of a selective HEVL filtering film in the transportation space is one more huge step in our mission.
  • Now, Eastman will be the first to offer selective HEVL filtering of undesirable blue light from the sun, in the auto transportation space.

Harvard Study Shows E Ink’s ePaper Is Up to Three Times Healthier for Your Eyes Than LCD Screens

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Monday, March 13, 2023

The study found that displays with brighter, bluer (or cooler) light cause higher levels of stress on retinal cells.

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  • The study found that displays with brighter, bluer (or cooler) light cause higher levels of stress on retinal cells.
  • The key takeaways from the Harvard study include:
    Spectra of light from displays is a leading trigger for stress on retinal cells.
  • Devices including E Ink’s ComfortGaze™ front light were up to three times less stressful for retinal cells than LCD devices.
  • E Ink’s low power ePaper enables solar-powered ePaper signage and bus stops around the world to be net-zero devices, using 100 percent renewable energy.

Clinical data presented at ASCO GU demonstrates reduced risk of recurrence in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with the use of BLC

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Monday, February 20, 2023

The clinical data demonstrated a significant decrease in the risk of recurrence & longer time to recurrence following Blue Light cystoscopy (BLC®) with Cysview® compared to White Light cystoscopy (WLC) alone.

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  • The clinical data demonstrated a significant decrease in the risk of recurrence & longer time to recurrence following Blue Light cystoscopy (BLC®) with Cysview® compared to White Light cystoscopy (WLC) alone.
  • A significant decrease in risk of recurrence following BLC utilization compared to WLC alone was also determined (HR, 0.70, p=0.005).
  • "Our findings demonstrate increased support for blue light cystoscopy's clinical role in reducing bladder cancer recurrence, and that equal access to health care can achieve equitable outcomes.
  • These data support current AUA/SUO guidelines recommending BLC usage in patients with NMIBC to increase detection and decrease recurrence."