The latest investigations into a promising new genetic test for glaucoma - the leading cause of blindness worldwide - has found it has the ability to identify 15 times more people at high risk of ...

Ophthalmologists discuss how advanced imaging, MIGS, and home monitoring are reshaping decision-making in complex glaucoma ...

Same-visit visual field test and optic nerve head imaging — even with 3D OCT neuroretinal rim minimum distance band thickness — may show different rates of disease progression, suggesting a need for ...

Glaucoma creeps in without pain or obvious symptoms, slowly damaging your optic nerve. Regular eye exams and early detection ...

A UA team’s device-in-progress could revolutionize the way glaucoma patients check their eye pressure. Eniko Enikov, an associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, is leading a UA ...

A new screening test that takes less than a minute is making it possible to diagnosis glaucoma earlier than ever before. The test is part of a new arsenal of diagnostic procedures and drug treatments ...

July 15 (UPI) --A new genetic test for glaucoma is 15 times more accurate at identifying people at high risk for the eye disease than existing diagnostics, a study published Thursday by JAMA ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of the eye called the optic nerve. It is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide ...

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. for those over forty, but this disease can develop at earlier ages of life as well. Intraocular pressure, fluid pressure inside the eye, can ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning is transforming the possibilities of early detection and diagnostics in medicine and health care. A new study published in IEEE Access by researchers at ...