The Eye Care Blog

Hundreds of people in Dorset are being condemned to blindness because health bodies are refusing to fund a treatment that could save their sight, a report has claimed.

Local doctors say a contagious eye infection is on the rise and so are bacterial infections that don’t respond to traditional antibiotics.

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is one of the only U.S. medical centers performing refractive surgery on children with neurological disorders.

The second-grader, too poor to imagine flying to Thailand or Singapore for advanced medical care, is among a handful of patients selected to have surgery at Danang’s airport aboard ORBIS International’s flying eye hospital — a converted DC-10 with an operating room and rotating volunteer doctors from around the world.

Bayer AG’s Bayer Healthcare unit and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. agreed to jointly develop, and commercialize a treatment for eye disease.

In April, there was warnings for contact lens wearers about a dangerous eye fungus spreading across the nation. Monday in Draper a new product was unveiled that could help prevent eye infection in the future.

Researchers at West Virginia University have tracked the origins of a form of eye cancer, Uveal Melanoma, that often leads to the removal of the eye and death.

For more than a century Amritsar has produced noted eye surgeons, both form the Royal British Army as well as from our own. The holy city is also called the ‘Mecca’ for treatment of eye ailments’. Textbooks still carry note of ‘Amritsar technique’, for cataract surgery perfected by Col Dr Henry Smith of the Royal [...]

The Assam government Friday ordered a judicial probe to investigate a botched cataract surgery camp at the Guwahati Medical College in which 38 people were blinded. The enquiry would be conducted by a retired judge of the Gauhati High Court and was expected to submit the report in three months.

The Flying Eye Hospital, operated by the US-based Orbis International, landed at Da Nang Airport on Saturday, beginning a two-week stopover in the central city.