Optometry

Vuity eyedrops have gone on sale as an alternative to reading glasses

Body & Mind

First FDA-approved eye drops to replace reading glasses go on sale

The first FDA-approved eye drops to treat age-related blurry near vision (presbyopia) has gone on sale in the US, offering a potential alternative to reading glasses for the estimated 128 million Americans affected by this common condition.

First author Joseph B. Ciolino, an ophthalmologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, with one of the lenses

Biology

Drug-dispensing contact lenses could battle a leading cause of blindness

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the world. Eye drops can help alleviate symptoms and stall the onset of vision loss, but patients don't always comply. New contact lenses impregnated with medication could solve this problem and improve patient outcomes.

Experimental new contact lenses may stop childhood-onset myopia from progressing as the patient gets older (Photo: Shutterstock)

Wellness & Healthy Living

Special contact lenses could potentially stop myopia from progressing

Experimental new contact lenses may stop nearsightedness from progressing.

Optician and optometrist Jaume Paune is the creator of contact lenses capable of correcting hyperopia without surgery

Wellness & Healthy Living

Overnight lenses correct farsightedness

The world's first contact lens to correct hyperopia (farsightedness) has been developed.

$NETRA offers a simple, quick and inexpensive way to use mobile phones to measure refractive errors of the eye (Photo Credit, Andy Ryan)$

Wellness & Healthy Living

NETRA uses of mobile phones to deliver simple, cheap eye tests

MIT Media Lab's "NETRA" enables cheap, fast eye tests.