optometry
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Your Contact Lenses Can Now Seep Antihistamines Into Your Eyes, If You Want
The future of eye care looks poised to involve specialised contact lenses filled with medicine. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of contact that releases an antihistamine to help prevent itchy eyes from allergies for up to 12 hours. Similar treatments for other eye diseases may be on the way soon.
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Horrified Surgeons Discover 27 Contact Lenses In Woman’s Eye
While prepping a 67-year-old female patient for routine cataract surgery at England’s Solihull Hospital, physicians noticed a strange bluish blob in one of her eyes. On closer look, the blob turned out to be 17 contact lenses stuck together. Another 10 lenses were subsequently discovered in the same eye. The surgeons have never seen anything…
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New Robot Surgeon Will Keep Jittery Docs From Scrambling Your Eyeballs
You’re the patient? Excellent, please lie down on this table. I’ll be your doctor today but will be working from the next room, remotely controlling the needle-wielding robot above you–I’ll try not to sneeze! Just kidding. So, who’s ready for some eye surgery?