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The results of a new clinical trial suggest that the first drug therapy to slow the progression of nearsightedness in kids could be on the horizon. The three-year study found that a daily drop in each eye of a low dose of atropine, a drug used to dilate pupils, was better than a placebo at limiting eyeglass prescription changes and inhibiting elongation of the eye in nearsighted children aged 6 to 10.

David Wallace, MD, MPH, the Marilyn K. Glick Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology for Indiana University School of Medicine, is new chairman of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

It’s no secret that today’s society is ever-changing toward the bigger and more industrialized and often less personalized. Medical care – an area that involve

We all want the same thing from our medical care — the utmost safety, highest trained specialists treating us, and the best possible outcomes — especially when it comes to surgery. Safety is our most

The Alabama Academy of Eye Physicians and Surgeons is imploring citizens of the Yellowhammer State to practice caution when selecting eye drops.

Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients — and physicians' groups are pushing back. But it's more than a turf war, both sides say, as they explain why patients' vision is at stake.

Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients — and physicians' groups are pushing back. But it's more than a turf war, both sides say, as they explain why patients' vision is at stake.

Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients — and physicians' groups are pushing back. But it's more than a turf war, both sides say, as they explain why patients' vision is at stake.

Optometrists are lobbying for more leeway to treat patients — and physicians' groups are pushing back.

A person from Washington state has died from an infection linked to a brand of over-the-counter eye drops contaminated with bacteria.