Credit Suisse underrates Bausch & Lomb
July 24, 2006 07:23

Credit Suisse is an international financial services company, advising on all aspects of finance. Because of the pending ReNu with MoistureLoc lawsuits and other factors, Credit Suisse gave Bausch & Lomb an underrated approval rate. (Read More)

LegalView Launches ReNu content
July 25, 2006 14:01

LegalView: Renu with MoistureLoc is a no-rub contact lens cleaning solution manufactured by Bausch & Lomb. In May 2006, the company removed MoistureLoc from the market after it was connected to the eye infection fungal keratitis, which can lead to blindness and eye irritation. It is believed that the fusarium fungus, which causes fungal keratitis in Renu users, originated in Bausch & Lomb's Greenville, South Carolina plant. (Read More about LegalView and ReNu)

As long as 9 years ago, multipurpose lens solution was problematic
July 28, 2006 12:02

Multipurpose solutions -- so named because they are designed for cleaning, disinfecting, and storing soft contact lenses -- may indeed be contributing to dangerous eye infections. In 1999 an Indiana State microbiologist Dr. Dannelly found that Bausch & Lomb's ReNu MultiPlus, the company's leading solution at the time, didn't kill the bacteria as well as the other brands. The results of the independently funded study appeared in the trade journal Contact Lens Spectrum in 2000.
Bausch & Lomb concludes that under certain unique circumstances -- such as when people left cases open and let the product evaporate, ReNu with MoistureLoc created an environment that allowed the fusarium fungus to thrive. Read the entire article.

Red Eye
July 30, 2006 12:01

Fast Company blogger Alyssa Danigelis ponders giving up contact lens for the less threatening concept of glasses. Her assumptions are based on the slow-to-withdraw ReNu with MoistureLoc and the disregard of Bausch & Lomb to put profit over people's eye safety and how Ciba Vision voluntarily pulled products from the market as a precautionary measure.