Sir Harold made his medical breakthrough after treating a Spitfire pilot who had splinters of acrylic in his eye.

St Thomas’ hospital in London, where the surgery was first pioneered, celebrated the anniversary on 8 February ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

The NHS is celebrating 75 years of cataract surgery, an operation which helps restore vision. The operation involves removing ...

On November 29, 1949, Sir Harold Ridley performed a surgical procedure to replace a clouded lens in the eye of a London cataract patient with the world’s first artificial one. His invention, dubbed ...

Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the fifth century BC.

Saturday is the 75th anniversary of a medical breakthrough: the invention of the artificial intraocular lens. The majority of us will receive one in each eye during routine cataract surgery. But ...