Most people have a relative, friend or neighbor who has had to deal with a cataract. Nearly 24.5 million Americans age 40 or older are affected by cataracts, and it’s the leading cause of blindness ...

Vision techniques have become so sophisticated that you can sit in a chair, feel absolutely nothing, and walk out 30 minutes later with 20/20 vision. And, not only that, the knowledge imparted by an ...

Corneal refractive surgery has been performed on millions of patients to decrease their spectacle dependence. Most of these patients have high expectations of visual function—but as these patients age ...

John A. Moran Eye Center researcher Liliana Werner, MD, PhD, loves travel and a good mystery—and her work provides plenty of both. As a world expert on the interaction between eye tissue and different ...

Support local journalism. An unlimited digital subscription to floridatoday.com is just $1 for 6 months. Click here and subscribe today. A cataract develops when the natural lens inside the eye ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Centration of implants — particularly multifocals, extended depth-of-focus lenses or moderate to high toric ...

Inside the eye, we have a lens, known as the crystalline lens. This is a clear structure when we are born but it continues to produce cells as we grow older. This is part of the normal process of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There are different types of corneal irregularities. I usually divide them into those that are surgically ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia in collaboration with Hoya Surgical Optics have improved a laboratory model that simulates cataract surgery on human donor eyes. Their latest human model ...