Glaucoma affects 70 million people worldwide and is the most common cause of irreversible blindness. While the primary risk factor for glaucoma is high intraocular pressure (IOP), the mechanisms that ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Sun Yat-sen University in China have shown that acute glaucoma in mice is largely an inflammatory disease and that high ...

We found the following factors were important for predicting the progression of glaucoma: (1) the presence of small bleeding and poor blood flow to the retina and back of the eye, (2) abnormal cell ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiovascular disease is an important risk factor for rapid progression of glaucoma disease, regardless of IOP, ...

You may have heard the term “glaucoma” before, but what is it really, and how do you know if you have it? Glaucoma is an eye disease in which the optic nerve is damaged over time due to elevated ...

A new paradigm to explain glaucoma is generating brain-based treatment advances. A review article says that some top researchers no longer consider glaucoma solely an eye disease, but rather a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ocular surface disease is a common glaucoma comorbidity, but only a small percentage of respondents among the ...

Another study points to the likelihood that primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is an autoimmune phenomenon, with Korean researchers reporting that people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are also at ...

Artificial intelligence can match and even outperform human eye doctors in diagnosing and treating glaucoma, a new study finds. The GPT-4 system from OpenAI did as well or better than ophthalmologists ...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — More than 3 million people in the United States are currently diagnosed with glaucoma. The National Eye Institute anticipates this number to rise to 4.2 million by 2030.

Next time you need to shade your eyes from the sun, think about the last time you had an eye exam. A comprehensive check can help detect glaucoma and other eye problems. Because vision loss from ...

Acute glaucoma in mice is largely an inflammatory disease and that high pressure in the eye causes vision loss by setting in motion an inflammatory response similar to that evoked by bacterial ...