Are contact lenses harmful to the eyes? One rarely thinks of any downside to wearing them, but studies have shown some harmful effects. On such was presented to the Experimental Biology Conference of the FASEB* this April, by doctors of the U. of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento.**

Using a new computer-assisted microscope, they found damage to the circulation of blood within the eye by both hard and soft contacts. Hard lenses, they reported, caused more damage than the soft.

*Federation of Amer. Societies for Experimental Biology.
**Drs. Chan, Ng, Cmic, Chow, Shannon & Cheung.

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