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Sight for sore eyes (w/Video)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In a world-first breakthrough, University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical researchers have used stem cells cultured on a simple contact lens to restore sight to sufferers of blinding corneal disease.


Bausch&Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits (AP)

Bausch & Lomb settles 600 eye fungus lawsuits

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Contact lens maker Bausch & Lomb Inc. had an overriding reason for going private in 2007: It wanted to handle a devastating recall of its flagship lens cleaner, its chief executive said, "without ...


UH optometrists make custom contact lenses for long-underserved patients

Optometrists make custom contact lenses for long-underserved patients

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options ...


High temperatures decrease antifungal properties of contact solution

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exposure to prolonged temperature elevation reduces antifungal activity of a contact lens solution that was implicated in the epidemic of the eye infection Fusarium keratitis that occurred between 2004 and 2006, according ...


Contact lenses are home to pathogenic amoebae

Biology /

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Contact lenses increase the risk of infection with pathogenic protozoa that can cause blindness. New research, published in the November issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, shows that a high percentage of contac ...