EyeSpy 20/20 is a 21st-century answer to the 150-year-old wall chart used in vision screenings. The problem with amblyopia, commonly known as lazy eye, isn’t treatment. If caught early enough in ...

As stay-at-home orders drag on, many of us are looking for ways to DIY tasks we used to outsource to professionals. While self-treating anything you’d normally visit a doctor for requires more care ...

While there are no FDA-cleared Snellen test apps, at least one other vision test application has pursued and secured FDA clearances in recent years. A few months ago, Vital Art and Science, developers ...

Optometrist Linda Morgan uses a phoropter to help determine a prescription for Liberty Elementary School student Brooklyn Richotte, 12, during a week-long vision screening at the UNMC College of ...

At least once in your life, you must have squinted at the eye chart at the doctor’s office or DMV, trying to make out the blurry bottom line. The test seems simple enough, right? Read a random string ...

SEATTLE, Washington — An overwhelming majority of people with age-related macular degeneration would rather test their vision with an iPad app than with traditional methods, a new study shows. "One of ...

New Vision Test Extends Range of Visual Acuity Measurement The Berkeley Rudimentary Vision Test (BRVT), a simplified visual task, is feasible for measuring visual acuity in patients with severe visual ...

British ophthalmologist Andrew Bastawrous moved his family from London to Kenya in 2013 with $150,000 of equipment, a team of 15 people and an ambitious goal: to understand the causes of blindness in ...

There are dozens of inexpensive ways to buy glasses online today, but getting a new eyeglass prescription is as old-school as ever: Book an appointment with your eye doctor, spend more time than you ...