A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of your eye. Most cataracts are age-related — they happen because of normal changes in your eyes as you get older. But you can get cataracts for other reasons, ...

Patients who have a new type of lens implanted in their eyes during surgery for cataracts or to correct their eyesight have excellent or good vision over distances both near and far, and often no ...

Cataracts are one of the most common forms of vision impairment, and unfortunately surgery is the only real treatment. But the clouds may be parting on a new drug treatment, improving the vision of ...

People who need double cataract surgery usually have an operation on one eye and receive treatment for the second later ...

Patients could safely be given double cataract surgery and may even recover more quickly if both eyes are operated on at the same time, new research suggests. People who need double cataract surgery ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

This study is the first to report cataract type specific risks in a cohort of Russian Mayak Production Association workers following chronic occupational exposure to ionizing radiation. In this ...

Same-day cataract surgery on both eyes can be safe, effective and practical -- and it can reduce costs, according to a pair ...

A revolutionary new treatment for cataract has shown extremely positive results in laboratory tests, giving hope that the condition, that currently can only be cured with surgery, could soon be ...

In early September 2021, Luis Riollano, 31, noticed everything looked cloudy. He had long worn glasses to see distances and wondered if his prescription had changed. But soon, his vision worsened so ...