Most people have a relative, friend or neighbor who has had to deal with a cataract. Nearly 24.5 million Americans age 40 or older are affected by cataracts, and it’s the leading cause of blindness ...

Cataracts are cloudy areas in the lens of the eye. They are common as you age. According to the National Eye Institute, more than half of adults in the United States over the age of 80 have cataracts ...

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 ...

Abbott announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Tecnis Symfony Intraocular Lenses for the treatment of cataracts. Abbott announced that the Food and Drug Administration ...

The new full visual range IOL*1 delivers exceptional distance vision2 and 14% smaller readable print size vs PanOptix3 †. 93% of patients become free from glasses at all distances.#4 ‡ TECNIS Odyssey ...

Cataract surgery remains one of the most frequently performed and successful surgical procedures worldwide, involving the removal of a clouded natural lens and its replacement with an intraocular lens ...

The device is intended for primary implantation in the capsular bag, in the nondominant eye, after the fellow eye has already undergone successful implantation of a monofocal or monofocal toric IOL ...

The eye's natural crystalline lens can be replaced with an artificial lens—known as an intraocular lens—to restore clarity and lead to a vast improvement in quality of life for patients with cataracts ...

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Swiss Advanced Vision (SAV-IOL) has announced the launch of Project R-TASC, set to disrupt the global intraocular lens (IOL) market. Cataracts are responsible ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. An intraocular lens, which replaces the eye's natural lens during cataract surgery. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons 'Posterior ...