Innovation Sighting: Task Unification and Drug Dispensing Contact Lenses

Harvard Medical School may have found a potential method for treating glaucoma more effectively than standard eye drops through a novel technique called Task Unification. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness and cannot be cured due to the progressive nature of the disease. However, researchers may be able to slow its development by prescribing a contact lens that slowly releases medication to the eye. The contact lens was created using a thin film of drug-encapsulated polymers that surrounds the outer circle of the lens. The study suggests that the treatment may have more effectiveness than the traditional use of stinging and burning eye drops.