Novel contact lenses provide extended pain relief to laser eye surgery patients
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists are reporting development of contact lenses that could provide a continuous supply of anesthetic medication to the eyes of patients who undergo laser eye surgery an advance that could relieve patients of the burden of repeatedly placing drops of medicine into their eyes every few hours for several days. Their report appears in ACS' journal Langmuir.