Researchers have recently developed a new drug that will ultimately shrink down and dissolve cataracts -- the leading cause of human blindness that affects tens of millions of people worldwide.

Identified as a “priority eye disease” by the World Health Organization, cataracts — caused when the lenses of the eyes lose their transparency — affect more than 20 million people worldwide. Although ...

A team of researchers at led by University of California, San Diego have developed a new drug in eye drops that can shrink and dissolve cataracts, which may become an alternative to surgery. Cataracts ...

DEAR DR. GOTT: This is a follow-up to your Q&A on cataracts that I read with interest. During the past two weeks, I had cataracts removed from both eyes and intraocular lenses implanted at the same ...

Mercy Health – Urbana has introduced new cataract surgical equipment for Urbana and neighboring community patients. The Phaco equipment, also known as phacoemulsification, uses lasers to dissolve and ...

More than 2 million cataract operations are performed each year in the U. S., making it the most common surgery. Of all procedures performed on the human body, cataract surgery is the most successful, ...

Joe Zartler is just two weeks out of the surgeries he had on each eye to treat his cataracts. "Things were fuzzy and some things I had a hard time seeing far away or sometimes even up close," he said.

Fluffy white clouds floating across a brilliant blue sky can be quite pretty. Sometimes you can even see shapes in them, like a sailboat or an elephant. But if you have cataracts, the only clouds you ...

Shakti the pit bull was found starving and blind, abandoned in an Orlando dumpster."She was moving around in there, her nails were hitting the bottom," said Leslie Yates, Rescuing Animals in Need ...

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Eye drops could spell the end of cataract surgery - http://t.co/msOmqjwYXr pic.twitter.com/4lShbJ851T — Gizmag (@gizmag) July 23, 2015 Researchers have recently ...