If the cornea is no longer round or smooth, light entering the eye is scattered across the retina. This can cause blurry or distorted vision, reduced sensitivity to contrast, shadows or double vision ...

Because patients do not always associate their symptoms with dry eye, they often turn to treatments that do not work, says ...

What is astigmatism? The eye condition 40 per cent of people live with - Astigmatism is a type of refractive error where one ...

Eye patients sometimes assume that their vision screenings required for obtaining a driver’s license or certain certifications are equivalent to comprehensive eye exams. However, that isn’t the case.

A simple digital photograph of the back of the eye can predict a major cardiovascular event—such as a heart attack or ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA), the most common genetic optic neuropathy, is an insidious disease. It often presents slowly during childhood by way of blurry vision, trouble reading or ...

Each year, more than 30 million people globally receive surgery to correct cataracts. As many people age, the crystalline ...

Dry eye affects up to 16 million people in the US, and new treatments aim to mitigate the symptoms that can disrupt quality of life in these patients.

Eight diabetes symptoms that fool people into thinking they have something else and why these warning signs get dismissed as ...

New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems.