Light Adjustable Lens: A newer type of monofocal lens and the only adjustable lens on the market. After your eyes have healed from cataract surgery, your ophthalmologist will use UV light treatment ...

Copenhagen, Denmark: Patients who have a new type of lens implanted in their eyes during surgery for cataracts or to correct their eyesight have excellent or good vision over distances both near and ...

Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD Cataracts can't come back after surgery, but similar symptoms might ...

The emotional weight behind eye surgery also comes from the stakes involved. People worry about protecting their vision, and understandably so. Vision shapes mobility, independence, and confidence, so ...

The eye's natural crystalline lens can be replaced with an artificial lens—known as an intraocular lens—to restore clarity and lead to a vast improvement in quality of life for patients with cataracts ...

Eyesight is vital to our health, as we make up to 80% of our impressions with our eyes. These impressions can include innocent things like exploring the world around us or picking up on non-verbal ...

If you wear contact lenses, you probably don't think much about them. But they're a relatively new invention -- in fact, the first disposable contact lens wasn't introduced until 1982. "We think of ...

About 45 million Americans wear contact lenses, making this an important vision-correcting tool. But whether your doctor recently recommended that you try contacts or you’ve been popping them in for ...