{"id":149648,"date":"2022-11-07T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-smart-contact-lens-monitors-for-glaucoma-24-7"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T23:22:19","slug":"new-smart-contact-lens-monitors-for-glaucoma-24-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/new-smart-contact-lens-monitors-for-glaucoma-24-7","title":{"rendered":"New smart contact lens monitors for glaucoma 24\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-smart-contact-lens-monitors-for-glaucoma-24-72.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a certain insidiousness to the way glaucoma \u2014 a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve \u2014 can snatch away a person\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n<p>That damage can be so slow that people may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nei.nih.gov\/learn-about-eye-health\/eye-conditions-and-diseases\/glaucoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never notice<\/a> until it is too late, and the long term impacts, like loss of peripheral vision, blind spots, and blindness, have set in.<\/p>\n<p>Glaucoma impacts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7769798\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tens of millions<\/a> of people globally, and is the second leading cause of blindness, after cataracts. Now, Purdue University researchers have developed smart contact lenses that may help save people\u2019s sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a certain insidiousness to the way glaucoma \u2014 a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve \u2014 can snatch away a person\u2019s vision. That damage can be so slow that people may never notice until it is too late, and the long term impacts, like loss of peripheral vision, blind spots, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149648","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}