(THE CONVERSATION) Cataract surgery is one of the most popular and commonly performed procedures in the world. The vast majority of patients have excellent outcomes with few complications. By age 80, ...

The surgery, known as RK, was considered a successful tool for correcting vision. But in recent years, many of these patients ...

People typically start developing cataracts when they’re in their 50s or 60s. But people can develop cataracts at younger ...

During cataract surgery, your surgeon will remove the eye’s cloudy natural lens and replace it with a clear artificial lens.

These symptoms get worse over time. If your vision gets bad enough that you have trouble with driving, reading, or other everyday activities, only cataract surgery can correct it. This is an ...

A Boston company is developing an intraocular lens that it says mimics the way the natural eye functions, restoring youthful ...

The Ohio Valley Eye Institute in Evansville is one of the first in the nation to perform a newly FDA-approved procedure for ...

Digging out of its worst economic crisis in decades, Egypt is putting prized assets up for sale, and the rising powers of the ...

Resource-saving concepts needed to improve surgical outcomes "However, the surgical results of cataract surgery in the Global South are sometimes poor, which is mainly due to inadequate training ...

I became friends with Helen Vendler — the legendary poetry critic who died last week — six years ago, after she came to a ...

Dr. Alla Golovkina-Hynes, who opened Eye Care Physicians and Surgeons in 2011, specializes in cataracts and regularly ...

By age 80, over half of all Americans have cataracts. • Close to 4 million cataract surgeries are performed in the U.S. every year. • Over 90% of patients have 20/20 vision with glasses after ...