Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 2013, Malvina B. Eydelman, MD, director of the FDA’s Division of Ophthalmic and Ear, Nose and Throat Devices, ...

Dec. 12, 2003 — Editor's Note: On Nov. 14, Eyeonics, Inc., received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the first accommodating intraocular lens (Crystalens) that allows ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ophthalmologists have been searching for effective ways to address presbyopia for many decades, particularly ...

A cataract is an eye condition in which the lens becomes cloudy over time, thereby affecting eyesight. During cataract surgery, the clouded lens is removed and replaced with an artificial lens, which ...

Each year, more than 30 million people globally receive surgery to correct cataracts. As many people age, the crystalline lenses in their eyes become cloudy and obstruct their vision, but a simple and ...

Multifocal lenses use multiple refractive zones built in rings to give patients distance and near vision. These lenses are designed to address the problem of presbyopia, in which people over the age ...

Monofocal and multifocal lenses are both types of artificial intraocular lens (IOL). A monofocal lens has one focusing distance, whereas a multifocal lens can focus on close and far distances at the ...

Here are 17 facts and business and legal issues about premium intraocular lenses, a recent technology that can free many cataract surgery patients from having to wear eyeglasses. 1. In one of the few ...