A new medical invention has been created by scientists at Harvard Medical School.
The new invention is a contact lens that can dispense a regular dose of antibiotics to your eye for more than a month.
A biodegradable polymer film is mixed with a medication (antibiotic) and coated with hydrogel, which is the same material used to make contact lenses.
The film slowly releases the medication into the eye at a rate of 134 micrograms each day for 30 days.
Eye drops are used to dispense most eye medications but they are inefficient. Only about 1 to 7 percent of eye drop medications are absorbed into the eye because most of it drips out.
Patients find eye drops cumbersome and often forget to take them, which is why scientists believe this new medical invention will dispense eye medication more easily and effectively.
Source: iovs.orgembraceglobal.org; cnn.com/technology
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