A new report shows the benefit of wearing contact lenses for slowing myopia has a lasting effect -- good news since 50% of the world (5 billion people) will likely be nearsighted by 2050.

New research demonstrates that high-add multifocal contact lenses significantly slow myopia progression in children, with ...

Capping ten years of work to stem the tide of nearsightedness, David Berntsen, Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry and chair ...

A myopic eye grows too long from front to back. Light gets focused in front of the retina. Single-vision contact ...

in dim light your peripheral vision is better than your central vision, or what you’re looking at directly. This is because of where certain photoreceptors are located on your retina (back of ...

One patient developed an epiretinal membrane (ERM) after 12 months, which was not clinically significant. Other complications such as retinal detachment, suprachoroidal hemorrhage, reverse pupillary ...

Alcoholic neuropathy, also known as alcoholic peripheral neuropathy, refers to damage of the nerves due to chronic and excessive alcohol consumption. Affected nerves include the peripheral nerves, ...

(KNWA/KFTA) — More than 145,000 trailer hitch locks have been recalled because of a loose part that could cause towing vehicles to detach from their loads, increasing the risk of a crash. A ...

Background To evaluate, in patients undergoing macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment surgery (RRD), the correlation between preoperative optical coherence tomography (OCT) morphological ...

This is the most common stage to begin treatment. Stage 4 Severely abnormal vessel development with a partial retinal detachment. Stage 4 is divided into two parts: ∠Stage 4A where the ...