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 ...

Methods: To address these issues, this study introduces M3B-Net, a novel multi-modal, multi-branch framework that leverages fundus fluorescence angiography (FFA) images to improve retinal vessel ...

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 ...

Moreover, we estimated retinal detachment and RT on UWF, suggesting a quantitative measure for RRD anatomical ... 7 Our results suggest that PAT growth is linked to vascular imbalance, with transient ...

Efforts are being made throughout the NHS to reduce the number of amputations performed due to peripheral artery disease. The vascular surgery unit in Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, aimed to ...

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