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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

According to the authors, incorporating a broad spectrum of biomarkers allows the models to reflect the continuous and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Glaucoma-related ocular surface disease is a significant and often underdiagnosed ocular comorbidity that can ...

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 ...

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 ...