The Eye Care Blog

Thursday, was believed to be a Cataract Awareness Day, and on this special day Lenasia Community Health Center, a specialist hospital offers twenty elderly people a gift of sight.

The Union Cabinet’s Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA ), chaired by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, has decided to provide an outlay of Rs. 1,250 crore for the National Programme for Control of Blindness for the 11th plan period.The program will expand its scope to include other causes of blindness such as diabetic retinopathy and [...]

Latest news reveals about the drastic increase in residents of Guyana seeking cataract surgery in Cuba. This increase is due to the free treatment that is offered by the Cuban government on patients who are suffering from cataracts.

Dr Sunita Agarwal and her team at the Agarwal Hospital on Sunday, conducted a fifteen-minute live demonstration of the innovative Hydrophaco method cataract surgery, on a 48- year-old man, named Ambrose.

In an attempt to erase eye problems like cataract,Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim has decided to organize a free eye camp for all the residents of Manilenos, the Ospital ng Sampaloc (OS) and Ospital ng Tondo. The free eye check program is likely to cover several districts of Manila.

For the first time, the Sankara Nethralaya announced to lunch the Stellaris-Micro Incision Cataract Surgery (S-MICS) in Karnataka.

Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is the leading medical company in the world. One of the primary areas of its activity is: In the field of ophthalmology Carl Zeiss Meditec offers integrated solutions for treating the four main eye diseases: vision defects (refraction), cataracts, glaucoma and retinal disorders. The company’s system solutions are employed in all [...]

An Aston University researcher, Optometrist Professor James Wolffsohn claims to have found out a new type of eye surgery to offer perfect vision.

Aging is a natural process in which a human body goes through a series of changes. Among such changes vision problem is an inevitable change that all people has to suffer. In other words aging accompanies some vision problems that most of people has to face. These changes if dealt in right time with proper [...]

Now there is a good news for cataract patients as new research presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester reveals that artificial lens if coated with an antibiotic named hydrogel, shows significant reduction in the risk of post-operative eye infection “endophthalmitis “.