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...Contact lenses worn by actors, athletes and people who don't want to wear spectacles have three principal drawbacks: 1) friction of the eye against the lens irritates the cornea, makes it difficult to wear the glasses more than eight consecutive hours; 2) high cost (up to $250); 3) fitting, which involves making a wax cast of the eyeball...
Last week in Boston, the New England Council of Optometrists looked at a new type of lens which might eliminate these difficulties. Manhattan Eyeman Dr. William Feinbloom had developed a plastic, nonbreakable lens which rocks seesaw fashion with the motion of the eye, thus forestalls cornea irritation. The new lens...
Double Milky Way. The sun is a middle-sized, middle-aged citizen of the star cloud, or galaxy, known as the Milky Way. Astronomers used to think the "home galaxy" was merely a lens-shaped swarm of stars, revolving majestically in space. Now they think it has a more complicated...
Of U.S. babies born prematurely, over 12% suffer from "retrolental fibroplasia," a growth of tissue behind the eye's lens.
Some 5% of infants with retrolental fibroplasia also suffer from a complication - congenital glaucoma (hardening of the eyeball). Eyeman Terry says that pupil-contracting miotics (e.g., morphine, nico tine), if administered soon enough after birth, would knock the percentage down to 1. Other early babies are born with lento-cornea...