Cataracts are a common and often inevitable side effect of growing old. In the United States alone, over 24 million people ...

A surgeon makes small incisions in the eye, sucks out the cloudy lens and replaces it with an artificial lens implant.

NIH-led studies point to potential development of a cataract drug - ...

Removing the lens entails that the eye is not able to focus, and the correction is done by replacing the lens with an ...

Close to 4 million cataract surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year . Over 90% of patients have 20/20 vision with ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators have identified a protein, known as RNF114, ...

A cataract is a clouding of the eye's natural lens. The lens is a structure tucked deep inside the eye that helps us focus ...

NIH-Led Studies Point to Potential Development of a Cataract Drug – Findings Suggests a Surgery-Free Treatment ...

Study researchers observed that in the 13-lined ground squirrel, a cataract (red arrow) formed in the animal as it hibernated at low temperatures. The cataract, which is a clouding of the eye's lens, ...

Cataract surgery at Kolkata hospital leaves patients blind, sparking outrage and demands for justice and compensation.

According to 15 studies (7391 patients), diabetic retinopathy progresses more severely after cataract surgery (RR, 1.46), especially in the 4 paired studies (5830 patients RR 1.55). In the 12 ...