The Eye Care Blog

The doctors believe that the new surgery named Manual small-incision cataract surgery offers a better and effective results for the cataract patients. Not only this, a  minimal time is required to complete the full surgery.

In a survey it is found that by 2010 more than 8.4 million people in Asia will turn blind from Glaucoma, if not treated properly in time. Glaucoma is a disease which is the second leading cause of blindness after Cataract.

A miracle operation program which was implemented by Cuba and The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas in Guantanamo, the easternmost province of Cuba. has helped 2,400 patients to recover their vision. These patients were mainly from Guantanamo, Haiti and Venezuela.

Now people suffering from cataract can see clearly, near, far and everything, all thanks to special type of lens, called Crystalens. According to Dr. Carey T. Rowan, an cataract and laser surgeon, this brand of lens have an ability to be flexible along the muscles of the eye.

Macular degeneration and cataract are the most common eye disease that is found in America. Near about 13 million people of America are suffering from Macular degeneration and half of the people of age more than 80 have cataracts. A large scale research has been conducted by the National Eye Institute from nutritional stand point, [...]

Thousands of eye patients in Nicaragua have received the free eye treatment at the eye surgery program. The free eye surgery program took place at municipality of Sandino, less than 20 kilometers West of the capital Managua. Several groups of doctors took part in the program. They have treated nearly 5,458 cases of cataracts and [...]

On May 29, in the annual meeting of Global Health council, Washington, the Aravind eye care system based in Tamil Nadu in Southern India is going to get an award of $ 1 million. It is the worlds largest prize for international health. This eye care system has a large surgery network in India that [...]

Corticocapsular adhesions can be a result of a number of factors like Cortical cataracts, older age and female gender, explains a study conducted by Indian researchers at the Iladevi Cataract and IOL Research Center in Ahmedabad. The study was also published in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology.