Omale told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday that other causes of congenital cataract are metabolic problems, diabetes, trauma and inflammation or drug reactions. "Without early ...

NEW YORK -- Nearly 40 percent of otherwise healthy babies who have infantile cataracts are not diagnosed with the condition until they're older than six weeks, a study conducted in Georgia found.

Researchers at the University of Delaware, working with colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and 23andMe Inc., have found 54 locations on the human genome that are associated with ...

Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the ...

When University of Delaware doctoral student Sandeep Aryal took the initiative to learn additional research techniques to study proteins present in the eye, his work resulted in the discovery of a new ...

Cataracts—a clouding of the lens in your eye—are the leading cause of blindness worldwide and in the United States, with an estimated 24 million Americans who have been diagnosed with cataracts, ...

Cataracts are opaque or cloudy regions of the (normally clear) lens of the eye. Overall, about 24.4 million people in the United States are affected by cataracts, making this the most common cause of ...

A 64-year-old white woman presents with a 2-week history of a visual field defect. She does not report any associated blurred vision, diplopia, or pain in either eye, other than occasional bilateral ...