Contact Lenses Could Deliver Medications

Roland Piquepaille writes "This UPI Science News article says that eye diseases like glaucoma could one day be treated by pharmaceuticals delivered through contact lenses. "Patients might be able to one day receive prescription medications through tiny particles embedded in soft contact lenses, researchers said Sunday. They said they have developed a method to encapsulate a medication in nanoparticles, particles so tiny they are microscopic and cannot be felt or seen by the eye." However, the lenses are in the very early engineering design stages and have not been tested clinically. Check this column for more details."

Comments

the new nicotine patch

[Hadlock]

a nicotine patch is what immediately came to mind.... although as nasty as nicotine is, you might go blind wearing even a low concentration "patch" on your eyeball...

for glaucoma?

[Hubert_Shrump]

So these would deliver THC and keep the red in?

colors

[Joe the Lesser]

Soon all our grandmas will be getting these, but asking for the colored lenses like some kids wear nowadays.

And the one's that choose red will truly be Hell's Grannies.