The Eye Care Blog

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, [...]

The Macular degeneration is the type of eye disease that develops in the older people. It is one of the major causes of vision loss in countries like the USA, especially among the age group of 65 and above. According to the Archives of Ophthalmology, nearly 1.75 million people were identified with the age related [...]

According to the network news report , after reports of unsuccessful surgical outcome of Lasik Surgery and subsequent warnings given by FDA on LASIK surgery, many patients are fearing and hesitating to undergo LASIK surgery for the treatment of eye disease. Realizing that, many of the Optometrists of America, are considering of other alternatives that [...]

A new study was approached by Martin Friedlander and colleagues, at the Scripps Institute, La Jolla, suggesting a simpler way to reduce VEGF induced blood vessel in the eye which causes vision loss.

Indian researchers at the St. Johns Medical College Hospital in Bangalore, find that Optic nerve sheath decompression can be used as a solution to maintain or even improve vision in the patients of diopathic intracranial hypertension and cerebral venous thrombosis. The team led by Dr. SuneethaNithyanandam , come to the decision after a 3 [...]