– The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the first combination contact lens that provides vision correction and an antihistamine drug to help relieve symptoms for people experiencing itchy allergy eyes: ACUVUE® Theravision™ with Ketotifen.
– This is the first regulatory approval by any health authority for the novel technology, which combines an ACUVUE® daily disposable contact lens (etafilcon A) with ketotifen, an established antihistamine.
