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Smart contact lens monitors eye pressure and delivers glaucoma drugs in early tests
Glaucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness, and a silent one at that. It’s estimated that half of the patients who develop it are unaware of their condition, as they lose peripheral vision only when the disease is more advanced, and the damage is irreversible.
There isn’t a cure, and while medication can control hypertension in the eye to slow or stop further damage to the optical nerve, it has shortcomings.
Glaucoma is the second-leading cause of blindness, and a silent one at that. It’s estimated that half of the patients who develop it are unaware of their condition, as they lose peripheral vision only when the disease is more advanced, and the damage is irreversible.
There isn’t a cure, and while medication can control hypertension in the eye to slow or stop further damage to the optical nerve, it has shortcomings.