Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD A cataract is a cloudiness that forms on the eye's natural lens, causing blurry ...

Struggling to read the teleprompter, Hawn told Garfield he'd have to fly solo with the presentation because she couldn't see the text due to having cataracts. The 79-year-old actress isn't alone ...

According to doctors, those with uveitis, which causes inflammation in the middle layer of the eye, develop cataracts earlier than others. And so, these changes make surgery more technically ...

Which part of the eye does cataract affect? There are three predominant forms of cataract depending on their anatomical location in the eye lens: cortical, nuclear and posterior sub-capsular (PSC). As ...

Photojournalist Stephen Shames had been told for several years that he would eventually need to have cataract surgery. But as he was having more difficulty reading, driving and focusing his ...

Krishna (name changed), 70, a farmer in Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu, was having trouble with vision in one of his eyes. He also kept on putting off his eye screeni ...

Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching, which ...