Another CL That Dispenses Medicine

Another "drug-dispensing contact lens developed at Auburn University could replace eye drops as the most popular way to deliver drugs to the eye, the professor behind the development said last week," reports the blog AL. "A team of chemical and biomedical engineers led by Auburn professor Mark Byrne has created a way to embed drugs in contact lenses and deliver a steady dose of the drug over the prescribed life of the lens.Glaucoma patients and those needing anti-inflammatories, antibiotics and antihistamines may within a few years be able to treat their eye ailments without the use of eye drops or ointments, Byrne said. The lenses, which so far have been successfully tested in rabbits, could one day be commonly prescribed for patients recovering from laser eye surgery or cataract surgery, or for people who simply have allergies that make their eyes burn, he said." Read more.