The fact that light is necessary for life is generally accepted as an axiom. The extent to which
light interacts and influences human biology, however, is often not fully appreciated …

Inkjet printing has the potential to advance the treatment of eye diseases by printing drugs
on demand onto contact lenses for localised delivery and personalised dosing, while near …

Abstract Willmann, Gabriel. Ultraviolet keratitis: From the pathophysiological basis to
prevention and clinical management. High Alt Med Biol 16: 277–282, 2015.—Ultraviolet …

Ocular drug delivery using contact lenses may be able to substitute for eye drop therapy.
However, issues with hydrophobic drugs (like bimatoprost that is used to treat glaucoma) …

Purpose The purpose was to develop suitable in vitro methods to detect ocular epithelial cell
damage when exposed to UV radiation, in an effort to evaluate UV-absorbing ophthalmic …

Clinical instruments using Scheimpflug image-based methods to obtain optical sectional
images of the cornea have been introduced in recent years along with proposals that it …

Tear protein deposition and bacterial adhesion are the main drawbacks of the hydrogel
contact lens. In this study, we developed a novel superhydrophilic poly (2-hydroxyethyl …

Purpose To examine the effects of long-term ultraviolet radiation (UVR) blocking wearing
contact lenses on ocular surface health, eye focus and macular pigment. Method 210 pre …

AN-acetylated chitosan hydrogel was investigated for ocular applications. One of the
drawbacks in the original hydrogel protocol, poor moldability, was circumvented by …

From synthesis through storage to disposal, contact lenses (CLs) interact with different
system environments throughout their functional life cycle. To fulfill their therapeutic purpose …