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According to researchers, diabetes mellitus is caused by higher levels of blood glucose due to the lack of production of insulin by the body, resistance to insulin, or both.

There have been 8 reported patients with vision loss as well as 4 reports of enucleation, or surgical removal of eyeball.

Medicare reimbursements for complex cataract surgery are far lower than a simpler form of the surgery.

Maternal pregnancy-related smoking was measured using key metrics: Provider or self-reported smoking during pregnancy and cotinine and hydroxycotinine in neonatal blood.

According to the company, it is the first approval in the world for allogeneic cell therapy to treat corneal endothelial disease.

On this week's episode of the NeuroOp Guru video blog, Andy Lee, MD, and Elizabeth Fortin, MD, discuss unilateral isolated paucisymptomatic optic disc edema and what exactly it is.

Adequate assessment and estimation of residual visual function are important clinically.

Maternal pregnancy-related smoking was measured using key metrics: Provider or self-reported smoking during pregnancy and cotinine and hydroxycotinine in neonatal blood.

BRIO-I is a double-masked, randomized, multi-center, safety and efficacy study that enrolled emmetropic phakic and pseudophakic presbyopic subjects.

Physicians making sense of the cornea transplant alphabet soup.

Lessons learned from a pilot will inform future collaborative work between the ADA and Genentech to improve health equity in eye care for people living with diabetes.

Researchers cite persistent prosopagnosia in the case of a 28-year-old woman.

Researchers are using a new, highly versatile form of CRISPR-based genome editing with the potential to correct a wide variety of disease-causing genetic mutations.

Researchers are using a new, highly versatile form of CRISPR-based genome editing with the potential to correct a wide variety of disease-causing genetic mutations.

Medical student’s vision was threatened by keratoconus, and early diagnosis and treatment could prove to be key to preserving the patient’s vision.

Hurdles include limited space, handling thin sclera, choosing the right site.

The sharing of data between ophthalmologists and optometrists ultimately can lead to earlier diagnosis and better results for patients.

PBM treatment showed a statistically significant slowing of disease progression in patients with early to intermediate dry AMD.

PBM treatment showed a statistically significant slowing of disease progression in patients with early to intermediate dry AMD.

Procedure integrates femto, phaco in one instrument to address issues.

The findings have potential clinical and public health implications and highlight the greater role of metabolic health status than obesity in IOP elevation, according to the authors.