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.

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can cause vision loss and blindness by damaging a nerve in the back of your eye called the optic nerve. Each type of glaucoma is different, but most have no ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 77-year-old woman in good health. I walk daily. The only prescribed medications I am on are two different eye drops for glaucoma. My eye pressure is under control; I have it ...

Glaucoma can cause damage to the optic nerve if left untreated, making frequent eye appointments vital for catching it quickly. So a lot of people think that glaucoma is a disease in which they have ...

This prospective, nonrandomized, consecutive cohort study aimed to assess 36-month outcomes after cataract surgery and implantation of two second-generation trabecular microbypass stents (iStent ...

A type of glaucoma called normal-tension glaucoma is associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and possibly dementia, finds research published online in the British Journal of ...

A large study suggests that men who take common erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs may have a slightly lower risk of developing ...

Glaucoma represents one of medicine’s most paradoxical challenges—a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide that progresses so silently many patients have no idea they’re affected until ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists may reduce glaucoma risk in T2D patients, though the reduction was nonsignificant. The review included five high-quality observational studies with over 2.5 million ...

Patients with type 1 diabetes have over four times the risk for glaucoma and ocular hypertension if they also have diabetic ...