About 3 million people in the United States have glaucoma, and it's the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, ...

Read on to learn more about the different ways you can treat glaucoma. Laser treatment One of the most common treatments is laser surgery, which uses a laser to target and open up the clogged channels ...

There are four main types of primary glaucoma, or glaucoma that is not caused by another medical condition. Open-angle glaucoma is the most common, affecting 90 percent of Americans with glaucoma ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause slow, progressive damage to the optic nerve in the back of the eye, says Schultz. This growing damage is due to unsafe fluid buildup that causes ...

Blindness can be caused by a host of factors including retinal infections, metabolic diseases such as diabetes, age-related conditions such as macular degeneration, or genetic disorders such as ...

More commonly, though, blindness is caused by glaucoma − a disease that affects millions of Americans and is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, per the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

So, I have a lot of interviews with the doctors who have an interest in glaucoma, trying to understand what the level of training is, because there are different surgeries that we need to perform to ...

More commonly, though, blindness is caused by glaucoma − a disease that affects millions of Americans and is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...

Nishani Amerasinghe, President of UK and Éire Glaucoma Society, said: “Evidence shows there is a benefit to addressing both the trabecular and uveoscleral aqueous humour outflow mechanisms to control ...

Kevin Ratcliffe is a glaucoma patient at Cataract Surgery Center ... approved device that automatically administers drops to treat glaucoma. The goal is to address a common problem among glaucoma ...