{"id":77794,"date":"2018-04-14T05:48:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/fda-approves-contact-lenses-that-shade-the-sun"},"modified":"2018-04-14T05:48:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:48:42","slug":"fda-approves-contact-lenses-that-shade-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/fda-approves-contact-lenses-that-shade-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves contact lenses that shade the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-contact-lenses-that-shade-the-sun.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lives of contact lens wearers just got a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/contact+lenses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">contact lenses<\/a> that can act like sunglasses.<\/p>\n<p>A special additive automatically darkens the lenses when exposed to bright light, while they become clear again in normal or dark lighting conditions.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-04-fda-contact-lenses-sun.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;04-fda-contact-lenses-sun.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lives of contact lens wearers just got a whole lot easier. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first contact lenses that can act like sunglasses. A special additive automatically darkens the lenses when exposed to bright light, while they become clear again in normal or dark lighting conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77794","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}