An OU Health eye specialist explains who is most at risk, why symptoms are rare, and how early exams can prevent permanent blindness.
The latest investigations into a promising new genetic test for glaucoma - the leading cause of blindness worldwide - has found it has the ability to identify 15 times more people at high risk of ...
What to know about glaucoma as cases expected to spike to 1.6 million - There are lots different types of glaucoma ...
Regardless of whether it is a swept-source or spectral-domain platform, OCT angiography is comparably useful for monitoring ...
MARY DUCKETT, a retired baby sitter and janitorial worker, was watching television one evening when she observed something floating in the air. She blinked and rubbed her eyes, but the object remained ...
Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. for those over forty, but this disease can develop at earlier ages of life as well. Intraocular pressure, fluid pressure inside the eye, can ...
A renewed focus on glaucoma comes with each new year, as January is Glaucoma Awareness Month.Glaucoma has been estimated to ...
Most of us don’t think much about our eyes unless something feels off. A headache, a fever, or even blurry vision can send us straight to a doctor, bu.
Frequent visual field testing has been linked to earlier detection of the progression of glaucoma, according to a report in the Archives of Ophthalmology. However, the study added, frequent visual ...
The disease is usually related to unhealthy pressure inside the eye, but often, symptoms are so subtle people don't even know they have it until it begins to steal their sight. An at home test could ...
Data estimates the prevalence of glaucoma currently is almost 50% higher than previously estimated and over 1.6 million ...