Over the years there has been a significant rise in infantile cataracts. In India, six out of every 10,000 children are born ...

Of the 150,000 children born on earth each day,* at least 200 who live will be blind. The League of Red Cross Societies figures 2,390,000 blind in the world, 105,000 of them in the U. S. China, ...

August 26, 2024 How eye drops used to prevent blindness in newborns funded the Barnes Foundation's art collection Dr. Albert C. Barnes made his fortune with argyrol, a solution that treated ...

Transplanting tissue from newborn fetal membranes prevents blindness in patients with a devastating disease called Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a new study has found.

Prevention Of Blindness Week 2025 History In 1960, the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness was established by Jawaharlal Nehru and Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur.

Prevent Blindness, the nation's leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has declared Feb. 24 to March 2, 2025, as the Second Annual Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Awareness Week ...

“Having a healthcare provider treat your baby’s eyes with erythromycin ointment after birth is a scientifically-proven, simple, harmless, and cost-effective way to prevent infant blindness ...

Prevention of Blindness Week 2025 serves as a wake-up call to prioritise eye health and take collective action against preventable blindness.

Pink eye in babies is relatively common and usually easily treatable. Let’s talk about what to do if you think your baby has ...

A new father with a degenerative eye disease was able to see his newborn son for the first time, thanks to a genetic therapy that helped restore partial sight to one of his eyes.

A bill recently passed by the West Virginia legislature would undo the state’s mandate for newborns to receive prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum, a potentially blindness-causing eye ...

UNDER the title of “The Causes and Prevention of Blindness,” Dr. Dudgeon has translated an essay, written by Dr. Fuchs, of Liége, under the conditions of a competition announced by the ...