Modern cataract surgery is a safe, effective procedure, but it wasn't always this way. The earliest record dates back to the fifth century BC.

The earliest written record of cataract surgery dates back to the fifth century BC. An Indian surgeon, Susruta, described a procedure known as couching. During couching, a sharp needle was used to ...

Cataract surgery is one of the oldest surgical procedures known, first documented in the fifth century BC. [12] In ancient times, cataracts were treated with a technique called couching, which ...

At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Angela Zhu, MD, offered advice on cataract surgery for all ages, ...

AI has quietly revolutionized the field of ophthalmology.While the concept of AI may evoke futuristic images of robots and ...

More than half of U.S. adults 80 and older either have cataracts or have had surgery to remove them [1]. With cataracts, the ...

Ottawa patients say they have been upsold and pressured to spend hundreds, even thousands, of extra dollars on cataract ...

The NHS is celebrating 75 years of cataract surgery, an operation which helps restore vision. The operation involves removing a lens - a small transparent disc inside the eye - that has become cloudy ...