If you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with glaucoma, you probably have many questions and concerns. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve -- the bundle of nerve ...

Expert panelists review the use of MIGS and other channel procedures in patients with glaucoma. Neil Minkoff, MD: What about something newer like MIGS [minimally invasive glaucoma surgery] therapy or ...

Glaucoma -- a leading cause of vision loss and blindness worldwide -- runs in families. A team of investigators has identified a new candidate gene for the most common form of the eye disorder, ...

Following a brief discussion on utilization management, experts discuss the current paradigm of patient access to therapy. Neil Minkoff, MD: Dr Stephens, could you also weigh in on how utilization ...

Glaucoma is a progressive disease with no cure. It’s the second leading cause of preventable blindness globally, yet half of the people living with it don’t even know they have it. 1 Ian Bell, ...

Macular degeneration and glaucoma can both lead to vision loss. However, macular degeneration tends to affect central vision while glaucoma affects side vision. The causes and treatment are also ...

Patients with ocular hypertension who develop primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) without visual field loss did not experience a decreased vision-related quality of life compared with those who did not ...

Medicare Part B covers an annual glaucoma screening for people with a higher chance of developing glaucoma: African Americans age 50 and over, Hispanics age 65 and over, people living with diabetes, ...

Cannabidiol (CBD) is a compound derived from the cannabis plant. Unlike tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), it doesn’t cause intoxication. CBD has a wide variety of potential therapeutic uses, but research is ...

image: With $765,000 from the National Institutes of Health, University of Houston College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan is working towards a pharmaceutical cure for the ...