Johnson & Johnson has a potential alternative to eye drops with its drug-eluting Acuvue Theravision contact lens.
As far back as the early 1960s, researchers toyed with the idea of delivering medication through contact lenses.
Johnson & Johnson Vision (NYSE:JNJ) Director of Clinica Science Dr. Brian Pall told Drug Delivery Business News that patents back then disclosed how a soft contact lens of hydrogel material could be an effective vehicle for delivering medication to the eye.
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