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

Well...

[Drakin]

For eye medications I can see this... but using it for other medication? Is there really that large of an advantage of useing this vs a patch based method?

It mentions use for people who forget to take eye drop or pills... now, unless they already use contacts, what's to say they won't forget to put 'em in?

Though, personally, I just don't like the idea of contacts for some reason. Contacts and dentists just make me shudder thinking about them.