UVA Health Opens Outpatient Laser Eye Surgery Clinic

6/17/2024

By Eric Swensen UVA Health is opening an outpatient eye surgery clinic offering laser vision-correction procedures, including the well-known LASIK surgery. UVA Health LASIK Northridge is now open at Suite 130…

UVA Health Blog: What Is a Diabetic Eye Exam? Do I Need One?

10/14/2022

Annual eye exams are an important part of staying healthy. This is especially true if you have diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in people over 40, according…

Scientists Find Toxic Buildup in Eyes of Patients with Blinding Macular Degeneration

10/12/2021

Damaging DNA builds up in the eyes of patients with geographic atrophy, an untreatable, poorly understood form of age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness, new research from the University of…

UVA Discovers Trigger for Macular Degeneration that Robs Millions of Vision

11/28/2017

In a major step forward in the battle against macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss among the elderly, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a critical…

Ask the Expert: What is Glaucoma?

11/17/2017

What is glaucoma? Glaucoma is typically a combination of increased eye pressure, optic nerve damage and vision loss. The vision loss is most frequently in the peripheral visual field early…