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UrduOn April 8, a rare solar eclipse will be visible in a path across North America. While many are eager to experience the eclipse, prolonged exposure to the sun’s rays can lead to vision distortion or potential permanent damage. UC…
Tag: Optometry
The Medical Minute: Help your children experience the solar eclipse while protecting their vision
It’s a celestial anomaly that happens only once in a blue moon. A Penn State Health expert talks about the safest ways for you to witness the solar eclipse on Monday, April 8.
Kids don’t know they need glasses: 7 vision tips for parents
Can your child see the blackboard at school? Ophthalmologist Marcela Maria Estrada explains why kids often don’t know they have bad eyesight and gives tips for healthy vision.
New research sheds light on how human vision perceives scale
The study, published on 8 May in the journal PLOS ONE, explored the computational mechanisms used by the human brain to perceive the size of objects in the world around us.
New Shiley EyeMobile for Children Hits the Road to Serve Underserved Communities
The new UC San Diego Shiley EyeMobile for Children is driving to schools in San Diego County to serve low-income families in need of eye exams. The EyeMobile, a program of UC San Diego Health, will visit approximately 250 preschools to provide vision care to low-income students.
UC Davis Health opens doors to new state-of-the-art eye care facility in Sacramento
UC Davis Health welcomed the first patients to the new Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute on Monday, Dec. 5. The state-of-the-art facility, which houses both clinicians and researchers, is dedicated to advancing world-class eye care and offering hope for sight restoration.
New biomarkers may detect early eye changes that can lead to diabetes-related blindness
Optometry researchers have identified new biomarkers that may advance the early detection of diabetic retinopathy, the most common diabetic eye disease and a leading cause of blindness in U.S. adults.
Young nearsighted kids benefit from bifocal contact lenses, study shows
Bifocal contact lenses aren’t just for aging eyes anymore. In nearsighted kids as young as 7 years old, multifocal contact lenses with a heavy dose of added reading power can dramatically slow further progression of myopia, new research has found.
IU’s Clark explains link between conjunctivitis and COVID-19, with steps to protect eye-care professionals and patients
Dr. Christopher Clark, a visiting lecturer at the Indiana University School of Optometry, co-authored a recent article in the journal Review of Optometry, explaining that conjunctivitis is likely an early symptom of COVID-19, even in patients with no other apparent…
Treatment for common vision disorder does not improve children’s reading skills
Results from a clinical trial funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) show that while vision therapy can successfully treat convergence insufficiency (CI) in children, it fails to improve their reading test scores.
Telescope technology used to take first accurate images of glaucoma-related eye structure
Researchers at the IU School of Optometry have used adaptive optics technology to create the first undistorted microscopic images of the eye’s trabecular meshwork, which could help improve treatment for glaucoma.