Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Continual progress is being made in the area of amblyopia therapy, and patients of all ages are seeing benefits.

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Amblyopia, also known as "lazy eye," is a common eye condition in kids that develops when a child has an eye that does not see well. This is caused by a poor connection between the eye to the brain, ...

A new study's findings may transform worldwide treatment for the most common childhood visual disease, and the Philadelphia area can now call one of the lead researchers a local. Amblyopia, or lazy ...

Patching the unaffected eye of children with moderate amblyopia for two hours daily works as well as patching the eye for six hours. This research finding should lead to better compliance with ...

Both patching and atropine provide benefit for pediatric patients with amblyopia, regardless of variables including age, depth of amblyopia and the number of patching hours prescribed, a large study ...

A recent report by the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigators Group (PEDIG) provides evidence that increasing patching from two to six hours a day is effective at treating persistent amblyopia. The ...

Children with moderate or severe amblyopia saw significant improvement in visual acuity with the use of daily 2-hour patching of the stronger eye, according to data collected in a trial's run-in phase ...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of utilizing elbow splints as a method of increasing amblyopic patching compliance in pediatric ophthalmology patients who ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and 34 other ophthalmology centers across North America report that in children with moderate amblyopia, or "lazy eye," patching the ...

Patching or atropine eye drops both improved visual acuity in a long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in children with amblyopia, according to new results from the Pediatric Eye ...