'Smart' Contact Lens Could Help Treat a Leading Cause of Blindness, Scientists Say

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A flexible contact lens that senses eye pressure and releases a drug on-demand could help treat glaucoma, the second leading global cause of blindness worldwide.

"Once detected, therapy for glaucoma can arrest or slow its deterioration in the majority of cases," Jaimie Steinmetz, a research scientist at the Washington-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and collaboratorsBut glaucoma is typically hard to catch because peripheral vision is the first to go, and devices used to diagnose the condition only provide snapshot measurements of"Hence the importance of improving systems of surveillance, highlighting risk among family...

and sandwiches an ultra-thin air film in between. This air film hooks into a cantilevered electrical circuit which senses changes in intraocular pressure when the air pocket is compressed by outward pressure from the eye.brimonidine,

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