NEW YORK -- Nearly 40 percent of otherwise healthy babies who have infantile cataracts are not diagnosed with the condition until they're older than six weeks, a study conducted in Georgia found.

Cataracts are extremely common. A physician once put it to me simply: if you live long enough, you are going to get cataracts ...

During the 2025 Academy Awards ceremony, actress Goldie Hawn was presenting an award alongside actor Andrew Garfield. Struggling to read the teleprompter, Hawn told Garfield he'd have to fly solo with ...

Some of us, if we live long enough, develop cataracts, the disease in which the clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy or opaque. We can have this common problem corrected with surgery. Birds also ...

Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the ...

Cataracts are one of the most common eye conditions worldwide and a leading cause of gradually declining vision in adults. Although often associated with aging, they can develop earlier in life and ...

Cataracts are opaque or cloudy regions of the (normally clear) lens of the eye. Overall, about 24.4 million people in the United States are affected by cataracts, making this the most common cause of ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware, working with colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and 23andMe Inc., have found 54 locations on the human genome that are associated with ...

When University of Delaware doctoral student Sandeep Aryal took the initiative to learn additional research techniques to study proteins present in the eye, his work resulted in the discovery of a new ...

A 64-year-old white woman presents with a 2-week history of a visual field defect. She does not report any associated blurred vision, diplopia, or pain in either eye, other than occasional bilateral ...