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Latest Eye News and Research

16-year study links worsening vision to higher dementia risk

Researchers followed 15,576 older adults in Hong Kong for up to 16 years and linked moderate to severe visual impairment to higher dementia risk, with rapid visual decline strengthening the association at poorer levels of vision. They estimated that severe impairment corresponded to 2.1 fewer dementia-free years over the study period, but could not establish that correcting vision prevents dementia.

11 Oct 2026

Friends of BrainHealth grants advance dementia prevention and brain health research

For nearly 20 years, the Friends of BrainHealth donor circle has helped turn promising ideas into innovative brain health research.

9 Oct 2026

New framework aims to improve reliability of tear-based health sensors

Dr. Yangzhi Zhu of the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), with collaborators at UC San Diego and USC, published a Nature Sensors perspective on what it will take to turn tear-based wearable sensors into reliable, long-term health-tracking tools.

8 Oct 2026

Brief safety reminders help reduce harmful clinical AI decisions

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly capable of assisting with health care tasks, a new study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has found that adding a brief safety reminder reduced potentially harmful choices by AI models in clinical scenarios.

8 Oct 2026

Optogenetic therapy improves light sensitivity in people with retinitis pigmentosa

An international research team has reported new results from the first clinical cohort of blind people treated with an optogenetic therapy for advanced retinitis pigmentosa.

7 Oct 2026

Babies use saliva sharing to map out close relationships

Imagine you're an infant. Just a few months in the world, trying to gather your faculties, testing gravity - you're pretty helpless and fully reliant on the people around you.

7 Oct 2026

As femtosecond lasers find new medical uses, Lithuanian manufacturer bets on scale to meet demand

A recent study, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, found femtosecond laser imaging assesses lung tumor margins six times faster than the current standard, allowing surgeons to make life-saving decisions on how much tissue to remove while the patient is still in surgery.

7 Oct 2026

Statins may lower glaucoma risk and reduce treatment needs

Taking statins is linked to a lower risk of developing glaucoma and a reduced chance of it getting worse, suggest the findings of research published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

6 Oct 2026

Study uncovers link between inherited blindness and a gene causing rare metabolic disease

Researchers at the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) led the discovery of an unexpected connection between inherited blindness and a gene known for causing a rare metabolic disorder.

6 Oct 2026

Mount Sinai adopts automated data integration for oncology clinical trials

The Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center has transitioned its electronic health record (EHR)-to-clinical trial data integration technology from pilot to routine use across its cancer research program.

6 Oct 2026

Managing misfolded proteins to prevent Parkinson’s disease

The protein alpha-synuclein is abundant in healthy brains and plays an important role in enabling communication between nerve cells. However, under certain conditions, misfolded alpha-synuclein proteins can accumulate into toxic clumps inside neurons

6 Oct 2026

Aston University partners with Globe Biomedical to test smart myopia-monitoring eyewear

Aston University School of Optometry and Globe Biomedical have announced a research collaboration for Blink Frames, Globe Biomedical's smart eyewear platform, which continually monitors a patient's eyes via normal-looking spectacle frames.

5 Oct 2026

Portable paper device rapidly detects scopolamine in beverages

Isabel Poves, researcher at the University of the Basque Country-EHU, has developed a microfluidic paper-based device that provides a rapid, reliable and easy way to detect scopolamine and related compounds.

1 Oct 2026

Study links immune status to herpesvirus retinitis progression

The clinical progression and outcomes of two major herpesvirus retinitis forms are associated with patients' immune status, reveal Institute of Science Tokyo scientists.

1 Oct 2026

Wearable AI forecasts prolonged sitting in women with chronic pelvic pain disorders

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) approach using data from wearable devices that can forecast upcoming periods of prolonged sitting in women with chronic pelvic pain disorders.

30 Sep 2026

Smartphone retinal imaging could expand global eye care screening

Smartphones could play an important role in the early detection of eye diseases, including in settings where specialized ophthalmic infrastructure is limited.

30 Sep 2026

Cold temperatures may raise eye pressure in glaucoma patients

Lower air temperatures may be associated with an increase in the fluid pressure inside the eye-a cardinal cause of glaucoma-and should be taken into consideration when treating patients with the condition, suggest the findings of research published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.

29 Sep 2026

Zebrafish study reveals how albinism gene influences embryonic eye development

Tiny, striped zebrafish are helping scientists trace how a gene linked to albinism influences eye development, work that may ultimately help explain some of the vision problems experienced by people with the condition and guide the search for new treatments.

28 Sep 2026

New automated method maps complex myelin patterns in the brain

Myelin, the insulating sheath around nerve fibers, is essential for fast, healthy signalling in the brain, and its patterns enormously vary across brain tissue regions.

28 Sep 2026

New artificial intelligence tool identifies aging patterns in hematopoietic stem cells

Aging progressively affects the functioning of our body and, among other things, deteriorates the ability of the hematopoietic system- the set of organs and tissues responsible for producing blood cells- to maintain adequate blood cell production.

28 Sep 2026