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 ...

Millions of Americans suffer from glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that damages the optic nerve. Glaucoma can cause serious vision loss and even blindness. Glaucoma is actually the second-leading ...

There's fresh hope for early detection and new treatments of glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that have devastating effects ...

This story first appeared in the April 2024 edition of Healthy You, a quarterly health publication and Gazette special section. Glaucoma is a common eye disease that affects people mostly over 60.

Ophthalmologists discuss how advanced imaging, MIGS, and home monitoring are reshaping decision-making in complex glaucoma ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's one of the most common causes of vision loss, and one of the easiest to overlook. Glaucoma symptoms develop so gradually ...

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 ...

Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. for those over forty, but this disease can develop at earlier ages of life as well. Intraocular pressure, fluid pressure inside the eye, can ...

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 ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that key proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease are also implicated in glaucoma, the major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. Research has also shown ...