Vision-improving nanoparticle eyedrops could end the need for glasses

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Could the development of eyesight-improving eyedrops help eliminate the need for glasses? Quite possibly, suggests new research coming out of Israel’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Bar-Ilan University. A team of ophthalmologists at these institutes have invented and tested “nanodrops” which, combined with a laser process, reportedly results in improvements in both short- and long-sightedness. Clinical testing in humans is set to take place later in 2018.

 

“The invention includes three parts,” Zeev Zalevsky, professor of electrical engineering and nanophotonics at Bar-Ilan University, who worked on the project, told Digital Trends.

 

 

 

Full article @ Digital Trends

[PGHammer]

I can only hope that they have applications in both nearsightedness AND farsightedness - as both conditions are still problematical for treatment with ANY form of RK (traditional, laser, what-have-you) where one eye is much worse than the other - which is still the case with over half the diagnoses of non-trauma-related astigmatism (that is, astigmatism NOT related to or caused by injury to the eye or body).

 

In the US, keeping an eye on the problem (no pun) is the job of the National Eye Institute (part of NIH).