Myopia, more commonly known as nearsightedness, not only causes blurry vision, it puts patients at higher risk of vision loss. These days, children's myopia can be controlled using special glasses, contact lenses or eyedrops. Dr. Debbie Jones explains how.
Device for early diagnosis of macular degeneration and navigation software for people with low vision win medals at invention exhibition in Switzerland.
Dr. Stephen Tait is retiring both from his 40-year part-time role as a clinical supervisor at the School of Optometry & Vision Science and from his private practice.
Assistive technology and low vision aids can help people with low vision to maintain or increase their independence. Low vision therapist Heidi Panchaud and high technology assessor Dave Johnston explain how professional staff at the Waterloo Eye Institute help patients choose and adjust to using the aids right for them.
Patented bandage contact lens material could release drugs as needed to help eye abrasions heal faster.
New School of Optometry & Vision Science research centre poised to make advancements in understanding diseases and conditions of the eye and beyond.
Dr. Krista Kelly is working to better understand how amblyopia, or ‘lazy eye’, affects children’s everyday lives, with the goal of developing better treatments.
The Centre for Eye and Vision Research (CEVR), a Hong Kong-based collaboration between the University of Waterloo and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, recently won gold medals for both the inventions it entered in the Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions Hong Kong.
Waterloo Eye Institute Low Vision Clinic helps Syrian refugee get special glasses that will allow him to drive.
Stories of just some of the approximately 200 refugee patients a year Dr. Lisa Woo remembers seeing at the Health Sciences Optometry Clinic (HSOC) in downtown Kitchener, run by the University of Waterloo School of Optometry and Vision Science.