Bandage contact lenses serve several purposes in the management of corneal disorders. Perhaps most commonly, they are used in the place of a pressure patch for pain relief, but there are numerous ...

Contact lenses may be useful for restoring vision to people who are short- or long-sighted, but they're less useful at correcting color blindness. Now researchers from the University of Birmingham ...

But conventional contact lenses do not work for people with damaged corneas, the clear windows of tissue that cover the front of the eyes, much like the lens of a camera.

Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times.

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands — Rigid contact lenses with large diameters and carefully selected posterior curvatures can improve vision in LASIK patients with decentered ablations, according to a ...

A new generation of lenses has transformed them into valuable health tools that can help not only with serious eye problems, but everything from migraines to diabetes.

Health Team Special contact lenses help dry eyes Chronic eye disease can severely limit sufferers' daily activities, but a special kind of contact lens is offering them hope of a normal life.

Can a contact lens help treat glaucoma? by Allyson Rowley, McMaster University While an undergraduate in biochemistry at McMaster, Michelle Fernandes worked as a researcher for a biotech company.

Scientists are developing a telescopic contact lens to magnify human vision, which could help people with age-related macular degeneration.

Overview of the soft, smart contact lens to monitor glucose levels in tears. (Credit: Jang-Ung Park, UNIST) A new, soft, flexible contact lens can monitor glucose levels in tears wirelessly and even ...