{"id":147243,"date":"2022-09-30T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-alternative-to-lasik-growing-in-popularity-as-many-ditch-lenses"},"modified":"2022-09-30T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T06:22:17","slug":"new-alternative-to-lasik-growing-in-popularity-as-many-ditch-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-alternative-to-lasik-growing-in-popularity-as-many-ditch-lenses","title":{"rendered":"New alternative to LASIK growing in popularity as many ditch lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-alternative-to-lasik-growing-in-popularity-as-many-ditch-lenses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (CBS) \u2014 A newly approved permanent contact lens is growing in popularity, it\u2019s a new alternative for LASIK. No more fumbling with contacts or glasses, now there\u2019s an FDA-approved lens that stays in place, and people say it\u2019s life-changing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the newest implantable contact lens, called EVO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely mind-blowing,\u201d patient Rusell Joy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (CBS) \u2014 A newly approved permanent contact lens is growing in popularity, it\u2019s a new alternative for LASIK. No more fumbling with contacts or glasses, now there\u2019s an FDA-approved lens that stays in place, and people say it\u2019s life-changing. This is the newest implantable contact lens, called EVO. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely mind-blowing,\u201d patient Rusell Joy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}