Intraocular pressure, or eye pressure, is pressure from fluid inside the eye. Measuring intraocular pressure is important as high intraocular pressure can increase the risk of glaucoma. The eye ...

Optometrists, ophthalmologists and their patients will benefit from new, high-tech tools to detect glaucoma at its earliest stages thanks to a startup that will commercialize smart contact lenses ...

Massimo Fazio, Ph.D., an associate professor in both UAB’s Departments of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, together with Christopher Girkin, M.D., and Alecia Gross, ...

The notion of using vacuum pressure on the anterior portion of the human eye as a treatment for open-angle glaucoma might be a clinical novelty, but Balance Ophthalmics Inc. is poised to change that.