Support local journalism. A digital subscription is incredibly affordable and worth its weight in gold. Click here and subscribe today. Glaucoma is the leading cause of visual loss in the United ...

A new study suggests that something as simple as how you position your head during sleep could influence eye health in ...

Sleeping without pillows may help lower high internal eye pressure, the build-up of which causes optic nerve damage and glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide—in people with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with migraine aged younger than 40 years had higher risk for open-angle glaucoma onset vs. those aged ...

Eyesight is important but easily taken for granted. Few people can imagine life without their eyesight, but hundreds of millions of people across the globe experience compromised vision every year.

—In this large, randomized trial, early lens extraction for patients with chronic angle-closure disease led to better quality of life and lower intraocular pressure at a reasonable cost compared to ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My eye doctor told me I’m in danger of an “acute attack” of narrow angle glaucoma and that I need iridotomy in both eyes right away. He also said this may be related to my headaches. I ...

A 44-year-old woman presented to an outside ophthalmology clinic with significant nausea, blurry vision in the right eye and ...

Glaucoma is the most common cause of blindness in older adults. The condition involves damage to the eye’s optic nerve, and without treatment, it can lead to vision loss or blindness. Glaucoma is a ...

Study finds that resident macrophages maintain eye pressure by clearing buildup in drainage tissues. Their loss increases ...

Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) is an irreversible optic neuropathy characterised by peripheral visual loss that usually precedes central vision loss. Due to its chronic nature and lack of early indicators ...