The Eye Care Blog

A Canadian research team while studing data compiled over 14 years from more than 100,000 patients with either asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) discovered that the patients who are taking anti-asthmatic medications to treat their asthma or lung disease may be more likely to develop cataracts.

The three genes causing fan-shaped cataract, cerulean cataract and sutural cataract has been identified by a research team led by Prof Jai Rup Singh at the Centre for Genetic Disorders, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU).

Researchers say that cases of Fusarium keratitis, a dangerous fungal eye infection that sparked the May 15 market recall of Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution involves a swelling and inflammation of the cornea that can be harmful to the structure of the eye and the patient’s vision, may be more widespread [...]

LASIK eye surgery can provide patients quickest improvement in their vision.

Michels, a Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., ophthalmologist, has been treating some patients afflicted by the wet form of the disease with Lucentis, a Genentech Inc. drug that was placed on fast-track review by the Food and Drug Administration and could be approved this month.

Technology based on WiFi wireless networks allows eye specialists at a hospital in India to screen patients in remote clinics via a video conference.

Dangerous fungal eye infection ‘Fusarium Keratitis’, that sparked the May 15 market recall of Bausch & Lomb’s ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution may be more widespread than previously thought, researchers report.

Allen Taylor, Ph.D., at Tufts University and colleagues reported that carbohydrate intake in older nondiabetic persons is related to the development of nuclear and cortical lens opacities.

If you are a quadriplegic and you need glasses, a new foundation may be able to get you Lasik for free, according to NBC4’s Dr. Bruce Hensel.

Dry eyes is a condition characterized by a decrease in the production of tears or change in the quality of tears.