Vision is our most important sense, which makes taking care of it essential. 93 million American adults are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half of them have visited an eye doctor's ...

Optometrists are independent. Even as they’re renting space in a Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart or Target – the remain independent. This results in different prices within a retail chain. But as a ...

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The World Health Organization estimates some 90% of the world’s visually impaired folks live in the developing world. Most suffer from correctible but undiagnosed refractive errors like cataracts.

The tool is intended to make eye exams affordable in the developing world, and the creators are founding a startup to distribute it. Measuring someone for an eyeglass prescription usually requires ...

Their plan to make eye exams cheap and accessible worldwide brought them to Haiti, where Marc Albanese and Yaopeng Zhou joined the pro-bono doctors of the Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity to ...

Can a humble smartphone serve as a substitute for expensive medical equipment to diagnose eye diseases? The answer is yes. A team of doctors from London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital has developed an ...

In a small "proof of principle" study, stroke researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Illinois have found that a simple, one-minute eye movement exam performed at the bedside worked better ...

The CDC reports that about 93 million US adults are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half have seen an eye doctor in the past 12 months. This is compounded by the fact that 63% of ...