The awareness day is celebrated every year on the second Thursday of October. This event was initiated by the 'SightFirstCampaign' of Lions Club International Foundation in the year 2000.
Toronto: Regular use of viagra, used to treat erectile dysfunction, can harm your vision leaving you blind, a study has claimed. Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada have found that people regularly taking the common erectile dysfunction pill may be at increased risk of sudden losses of vision, flashes of light, and […]
Glaucoma is a disease of the optic nerve which is estimated to affect 79.6 million people world-wide and, if left untreated, causes irreversible damage.
For the past decade and a half, eye doctors have been treating these conditions with drugs that block a protein, VEGF, that's responsible for spurring new vessel growth.