Cataract surgery restores a person’s vision to how it was before they developed cataracts. However, in some cases, it can also reduce other types of visual impairment, such as near- or farsightedness.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and ...

I was in the operating room the other day and one of my residents asked, "What is better tolerated after cataract surgery: residual hyperopia or residual myopia?" I quickly answered: "residual myopia!

Nearsightedness (myopia) and Farsightedness (hyperopia or presbyopia) are well-known refractive errors or refractive eye diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With modern techniques of surgery and ocular biometry, cataract surgery is now a type of refractive surgery. A ...

An innovative new contact lens developed by a Spanish researcher promises to improve the vision quality of thousands of people without surgery. The design represents the first contact lens capable of ...

The ophthalmological condition that presents with deficiency in near vision, but normal far vision, is known as hyperopia or farsightedness. While most term babies are born with this condition, it ...

Ailene DiGirolamo cried in joy for eight hours after the patch was removed from her left eye and she glimpsed the results. Her doctor had warned the Ormond Beach woman that the outcome might be ...

BRADENTON -- Tina Hoopingarner has reached that stage in life where everything begins to deteriorate. The 44-year-old Bradenton woman started using reading glasses to make out the fine print on ...

Surgery as an alternative to wearing glasses or contact lenses, already available to nearsighted people, soon may be offered to the farsighted as well.The procedure, pioneered and vigorously promoted ...