A nagging suspicion formed among eye doctors relaxing in a University of Iowa Hospitals break room sometime around 2017. Acanthomoeba keratitis is a rare eye infection, but it seemed to doctors that ...

I have been wearing contact lenses for more than 20 years. And like most humans, I haven’t always followed the best practices when it comes to my eye health. I used to wear my contacts for way too ...

Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times. The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate a thin ...

A woman's eye after being treated with fluorescein eye stain used to detect corneal injury. The New England Journal of Medicine ©2019 Imagine going blind just because you showered while wearing your ...

A UK soccer fan was blinded in his right eye after wearing his contact lenses in the shower. Nick Humphreys, 29, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, has had to have two operations and is waiting to have a ...

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(CNN) -- Lights, mirrors, action! Scientists are developing smart contact lenses embedded with miniscule mirrors that can magnify your vision by almost three times.The 1.55mm-thick lenses incorporate ...

A man went blind in one eye after sleeping with his contact lenses in, and even though some contacts are now made to be worn while you sleep, there are some important things to know before you do.