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A 44-year-old patient who took oral acetazolamide in preparation for a hiking trip to Everest experienced “profoundly” blurred vision

Research led by the University of Leeds has developed artificial intelligence that judges an individual’s heart attack risk from retinal scans

Healthy middle-aged adults who regularly ate goji berries increased their macular pigment optical density

Link made between mortality risk and the gap between what AI predicts an individual’s age to be and their actual age

The university is looking to speak with children between the ages of six and 12, and their family members

Scientists have explored how common myopia progression and onset is between the ages of 20 and 28

An 88-year-old woman from Dagenham has had a 2mm wide microchip inserted under her retina as part of a Europe-wide clinical trial

Scientists have developed a stem cell model to study the effect of genetic conditions that influence eye, skin and hair pigmentation

A US study has found that current e-cigarette users were 34% more likely to experience visual impairment than those who had never vaped

Clinicians from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL GOS Institute of Child Health are exploring the use of a new treatment in children with CLN2