About 45 million Americans wear contact lenses, making this an important vision-correcting tool. But whether your doctor recently recommended that you try contacts or you’ve been popping them in for ...

Wearing contact lenses can lead to dry eyes. Dry eye is a condition where your eyes cannot make enough tears to lubricate and nourish the eye. Symptoms may include burning, stinging, blurry vision, ...

If you wear contact lenses, you probably don't think much about them. But they're a relatively new invention -- in fact, the first disposable contact lens wasn't introduced until 1982. "We think of ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. You don’t need 20/20 vision to clearly see the benefits of daily contacts, eye doctors agree. Compared to ...

Dr. Reid answers the question: 'Why Remove Contacts Every Day?' Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: Why is it important to remove contacts every day? Answer: You should be wearing your contacts according ...

Emily Leath, 26, stepped into the shower one day, not realizing that it was going to have a devastating impact on the rest of her life. Leath developed acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), a rare yet serious ...

In a recent visit to the optometrist, Park saved over $1,000 on contact lenses and left with a better prescription. In a recent viral video, she describes exactly how this happened. The video opens on ...

Making sure that colored contact lenses are legitimate before Halloween can prevent eye infection. Craig See, MD, a cornea specialist for the Cole Eye Institute at Cleveland Clinic, emphasized taking ...