Doctors can sometimes be puzzled that seemingly well-treated glaucoma patients progress quickly, while others are remarkably stable. ...

Patients with glaucoma have significantly worse ocular surface disease signs and symptoms and worse quality of life as compared with...

About 9% of patients receiving IOP (eye pressure) -lowering treatment deny having glaucoma. While there can be debate as to how the...

A data-based staging system for childhood glaucoma does not currently exist but would obviously be beneficial. Chang and colleagues...

Glaucoma is generally seen as an abstract disease by patients, which often decreases compliance until major vision loss has occurred. As...

Seasoned health care providers understand that different patients experience the same diagnosis or condition very differently. In the old...

Patients with glaucoma, even at the early stage, read slowly and with more errors as compared with normal subjects, according to a study....

Elevated IOP (eye pressure) is a strong risk factor for glaucoma, and prospective, randomized clinical trials have left little doubt that...

There was a time when patients would consider a nonprescription solution as a dismissal of their concern. There’s been a noticeable trend...

Decreasing eye pressure (IOP) is currently the only way to preserve vision for glaucoma sufferers. Current medications achieve this...

Yoshikawa and colleagues confirmed a clear association between depression and glaucomatous optic nerves, but this association was found...

Despite our armada of technological and pharmaceutical tools, many questions remain unanswered regarding the origins of glaucoma. The...

Glaucoma is not always a simple disease to diagnose or effectively treat. Those of us whose practice focuses on this condition can attest...

Is smartphone use risky for our glaucoma patients? The possibility of smartphones increasing eye pressure ( IOP) under dim lighting...

Persons of Latin American Descent( LAD) are projected to become the largest group affected by glaucoma in the U.S. by 2050. Despite...

Applanation tonometry (in office eye pressure test) is the eye pressure equivalent of predicting the weather by looking outside your...

While the exact cause of glaucoma remains a mystery, recent studies suggest a (neurodegenerative) process that extends to the brain. This...

One of the most important concepts to keep in mind as a health care professional is the interconnectivity of various aspects of wellness....

Low blood pressure (hypotension) has been previously linked to normotensive glaucoma, and this association has led some to erroneously...

In an age of extraordinary technological breakthroughs in glaucoma testing and therapy, it is easy to forget that communication remains...