A federal expert panel backtracked on Monday on its 2004 recommendation to screen all kids younger than five years for poor vision, lazy eye and other eye conditions. Healthy children between three ...

A majority of children will not develop 20/20 vision until they are four to six years old. During those first few years, what should parents do to make sure their kids maintain healthy vision?

Migrant farmworkers have substantial rates of near- and distant-vision problems, but three-fourths have never had a vision screening test, reports a study in the October issue of Optometry and Vision ...

But you can be afflicted with another type of blindness that has nothing to do with the shades you see. The change blindness ...

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to recommend screening for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the most common form of glaucoma, and ...

Children who screen positive for amblyopia, reduced vision in one eye, before age 2 appear to have better visual outcomes than those whose vision problems are detected during screenings between ages 2 ...

Visually screening the mouths of individuals at high-risk of oral cancer could prevent around 37,000 worldwide deaths annually from the disease, suggests a study published in this week's issue of THE ...