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It's never been a better time to be a Canadian K-pop stan. Artists like BTS, NCT, and BLACKPINK continue to shatter the barriers that have kept the genre from making waves outside its usual market, and as a result, more and more Korean acts are finally bringing their tours to North America. Check out five K-pop tours we're looking forward to this year.
Despite the explosive popularity of K-pop in recent years in Canada and the U.S., the excitement has mostly followed boy groups, with few girl groups and female soloists bringing their tours to North America. Artists like Red Velvet are at the forefront of changing this. Kicking off their North American tour last week, their RedMare tour marks the first stateside K-pop girl group tour since 2016.
Anyone who wants to see "Bad Boy," aka Billboard's best K-pop song of 2018, performed live will have a chance to during their seven-city tour, which includes stops in Toronto (February 19) and Vancouver (February 21). Additional tickets have been released and are available here.
With a historical Coachella performance already in the books, these K-pop darlings are gearing up for a world tour, with dates taking them to Europe, Australia, and North America. Sharing their itinerary yesterday hours before their U.S. television debut on Colbert, BLACKPINK will thankfully be in our area, stopping in Hamilton, ON on April 27. Tickets go on sale February 20 here.
Following the success of her monster hit "Gashina," Sunmi dropped her second EP Warning late last year, delivering the equally badass feminist anthems "Heroine" and "Siren." Now, she's setting out on her first solo world tour, with the North American leg taking the former Wonder Girls member to Vancouver (March 11), Calgary (March 13), and Toronto (March 16). Get tickets here.
After conquering the K-pop world with Girls' Generation, Tiffany Young now has her sights set on the international market. Her highlights of 2018 include releasing a flurry of solo singles, appearing in our favourite web series (yes, she's played with puppies and taught us slang), and strutting on the American Music Awards red carpet. She's also up for an iHeartRadio Music Award for Best Solo Breakout. In the midst of all this, she's hitting the road on an eight-city North American tour, with stops in Toronto (March 3) and Vancouver (March 13). Get tickets here.
They haven't officially announced a comeback nor have they wrapped their current tour yet, but BTS aren't showing any signs that their journey to world domination is slowing down. Hot off their monumental Grammy appearance this weekend, the boy band have already hinted that they're back in the studio. Rumours of an "early 2019" return have circulated through media—we don't think that another world tour with stops in Canada is that farfetched of an idea. After all, it's not like they had any issue last year selling out the 17,000+ seats in Hamilton, ON's FirstOntario Centre, ahem, three times over. Let's just hope they hit more than one city this time around.


text: HeadlinesPharma Firm Gets $110M in Financing to Support Eyecare Drugs Published 1 year agoon October 4, 2018By INVISION Staff Share Tweet It's partnering with Athyrium.WALTHAM, MA — Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced the closing of a $110 million credit facility with funds managed by Athyrium Capital Management LP, a healthcare-focused investment firm.Kala said in a press release that it will use the money to develop eyecare-related drugs. Kala (NASDAQ: KALA) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics using its proprietary mucus-penetrating particle technology."We are pleased to be partnering with Athyrium and to have their support and confidence in INVELTYS for the treatment of inflammation and pain following ocular surgery and KPI-121 0.25% for dry eye disease," said Mark Iwicki, chairman, president and CEO of Kala. "We expect this financing to support Kala's efforts to achieve significant milestones, including the NDA filing for KPI-121 0.25% for dry eye disease by the end of 2018, the launch of INVELTYS in early 2019, and topline results for the STRIDE-3 trial of KPI-121 0.25% expected in Q4 2019."Laurent D. Hermouet, partner at Athyrium, said INVELTYS "has an efficacy, safety and dosing profile which should make it a desirable treatment option" for patients following ocular surgery. Hermoue said KPI-121 0.25% "could become a standard of care for the treatment of dry eye flares." Advertisement Related Topics:Kala click to Comment(Comment)Up NextAOA Targets Retailers Who Illegally Sell Contact LensesDon't MissEssilor and Luxottica Complete Merger Advertisement SPONSORED VIDEOSPONSORED BY REICHERTWhen You're Passionate About Eye Care, the Right Technology MattersLisa Genovese, O.D., strives to give her patients the very best. 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Published 11 hours agoon November 20, 2019By Deirdre Carroll INVISION'S FIRST ANNUAL Big Survey found out a lot of interesting information about the American ECP… even our Canadian friends to the north weighed in. We started with the basics, and they did not disappoint! Want to know which state has the most female owners, or which one has the weirdest ECPs? Here are few quick takes from the 2019 survey:Californian ECPs were the least likely to own their places of business, with 82 percent renting.Kansans were most likely to be open on Sunday with one in four stores and practices open on this traditional "rest" day.They don't take kindly to strangers asking questions in South Dakota. South Dakota, Louisiana and New Mexico were the only states not represented in our survey.Michigan ECPs are some of the hardest working in the industry: 25 percent work more than 50 hours a week.Florida had the most male owners and managers in our survey at 76 percent. Washington state had the most female owners at 86 percent.Connecticut was tops for self-declared weirdness with ECPs there giving themselves an average score of 8.2 out of 10 on our weirdness scale.The 2019 Big Survey was conducted from August to October and attracted responses from more than 500 American ECPs. Look out for all the full results in the November/December issue of INVISION. Continue ReadingHeadlinesFDA Approves First Contact Lens to Slow Myopia Progression in Children The approval was granted to CooperVision. Published 2 days agoon November 18, 2019By INVISION Staff The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first contact lens indicated to slow the progression of myopia in children between the ages of 8 and 12 years old.The FDA granted approval of MiSight, a single-use disposable soft contact lens, to CooperVision Inc. INVISION PodcastPodcast: What Exactly Does it Take to Become America's Finest Optical Retailer? 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It is common in children and tends to increase as they get older.CooperVision said in its own press release that MiSight is "the cornerstone of a comprehensive myopia management approach" that it will offer."We can't overstate the importance and potential impact of this landmark decision on children's vision, especially considering the rise in myopia's severity and prevalence in the U.S. and worldwide," said Daniel G. McBride, president of CooperVision. "Eye care professionals who embrace this breakthrough approach will improve the quality of life and eye health for so many children."The product will launch in the U.S. as part of a CooperVision myopia management initiative beginning in March 2020, according to the company's release. The lens "is already being successfully worn by thousands of myopic children in other parts of the world, including Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia, where age ranges for initial fitting may vary."MiSight "has been recognized as one of the most innovative developments in eye health by the likes of the British Contact Lens Association and international industry media," according to the release.The MiSight soft contact lenses are meant to be worn daily to correct nearsightedness and slow the progression of myopia in children with healthy eyes. When placed on the eye, one part of the MiSight contact lens corrects the refractive error to improve distance vision in nearsighted eyes, similar to a standard corrective lens. In addition, concentric peripheral rings in the lens focus part of the light in front of the retina (the back of the eye). This is believed to reduce the stimulus causing the progression of myopia.The approval of MiSight was based on data obtained from a prospective clinical trial at four clinical sites and real-world evidence. The safety and effectiveness of MiSight was studied in a three-year randomized, controlled clinical trial of 135 children ages 8 to 12 at the start of treatment who used MiSight or a conventional soft contact lens.The trial showed that for the full three-year period, the progression in myopia of those wearing MiSight lenses was less than those wearing conventional soft contact lenses. In addition, subjects who used MiSight had less change in the axial length of the eyeball at each annual checkup. 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U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene an executive session on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building G50 to consider the following legislative measures and nominations. Click here for additional information on nominees. Agenda 1. S. 151, Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence [...]Find out more
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