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May 19, 2021 —Eye experts have made a breakthrough that could potentially change the way cataracts are treated - with potential for drug therapy to replace ...
Dec. 17, 2020 —Children who undergo cataract surgery as infants have a 22% risk of glaucoma 10 years later, whether or not they receive an intraocular lens ...
Jan. 25, 2023 —New findings contradict previous notions about sugar's role in the onset of diabetic cataracts. Using an animal model that more closely recapitulates type 2 diabetes in humans, the research team ...
Dec. 6, 2021 —Based on the longitudinal data of over 3,000 study participants, researchers found that subjects who underwent cataract surgery had nearly 30% lower risk of developing dementia from any cause ...
Feb. 16, 2021 —Cataracts are the most common eye ailment in humans. However, the exact processes leading to this condition are not fully understood. A team of researchers has now discovered that the composition of ...
July 23, 2020 —Researchers have, for the first time, acquired optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the curved layers of a person's cornea with cell-level detail and a large viewing area. The new OCT ...
June 15, 2022 —Researchers used large-scale genotyping and exome sequencing from the UK Biobank to gain insight into the expected effects of long-term statin use on cataract risk. The analysis found that common ...
Dec. 2, 2020 —A new global study has found no significant reduction in the number of people with treatable sight loss since ...
Mar. 6, 2021 —A meta-analysis finds that vision impairment and blindness are tied to an increased risk of mortality, prompting the need to address global eye health ...
Sep. 1, 2021 —By temporarily suspending retinal activity in the non-amblyopic eye of animal models, neuroscientists restrengthened the visual response in the amblyopic eye, even at ages after the critical period ...