Drug-Eluting Contact Lens

Patients suffering from glaucoma need to use eye drops several times a day.  The idea that contact lenses can release eye drops isn’t new, but Daniel Kohane, at the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery at Boston Children’s Hospital, has developed lens materials that can release medications for a month, and he is working on another version that can last for more than three months.  The lens is made of a hydrogel, with drugs imbedded in a polymer film, though Kohane imagines it should be possible to incorporate medications in the hydrogel, without the polymer layer.  MORE

Image Credit:  MIT, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Children’s Hospital Boston and Technology Review