News tagged with astigmatism
Optometrists make custom contact lenses for long-underserved patients
May 13, 2009 |
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While the majority of patients with common vision problems can find glasses or contact lenses fairly easily, others who suffer from diseases of the eye that affect the focus of light have more limited options ...
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On the cutting edge: Zigzag incision technique improves outcome of laser-assisted corneal transplantation
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of the 40,000 Americans who undergo corneal transplants each year, recovery is uncomfortable and slow, sometimes taking as long as six months. Even then, clear vision may not be fully ...
Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Eyesight Correction Applications
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Arizona have created a fluid-based opthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated ...
Many children with hearing loss also have eye disorders
Feb 16, 2009 |
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About one-fifth of children with sensorineural hearing loss also have ocular disorders, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Physicist's vision for helping world's poor: self-adjusting eyeglasses
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.
Refractive errors affect vision for half of American adults
Aug 11, 2008 |
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About half of U.S. adults age 20 and older have refractive errors, or eye problems that result in less than 20/20 vision, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. ...
FDA approves new LASIK device
Jul 12, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first LASIK device designed to treat one eye for distance vision and the other eye for close vision.
Soft contacts designed for cone-shaped cornea
May 17, 2007 |
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Custom-designed contacts improved vision for subjects with keratoconic eyes and offer hope of nonsurgical treatment instead of corneal transplants. University of Rochester researchers describe the custom design techniques ...
Study compares LASIK and LASEK eye surgery
Dec 21, 2006 |
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A study comparing the safety, effectiveness and reliability of LASIK and LASEK has found no clinically significant differences between the two types of laser eye surgery.
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