Health Economics and Policy

An overstretched UK hospital that subcontracted cataract surgery is faced with a 48.3 percent complication rate. Who foots the legal bill?

Popular culture has always viewed eyes as being things of beauty. But there’s more to the eye than the color of your irides.

Dramatic improvements in the results from an astigmatic keratotomy model suggest that the femtosecond laser may be more than a rich ophthalmologist’s toy after all.

With childhood vision disorders like amblyopia and strabismus, early diagnosis is the key to treatment success.

At last, a unique and useful function for femtosecond laser systems has emerged.

Although baby boomers may be in a state of denial regarding their own aging, ophthalmologists know differently. In particular, four diseases of the ageing eye comprise a demographic and economic timebomb.

Gene therapy for ocular disease will soon be available. Stem cell therapies too. They may be able to cure the currently untreatable, but at what price? And will anyone pay it?

Five questions that must be answered on the causes and consequences of near-sightedness.

A stark picture of an overstretched, fragile service, often at odds with hospital management, is painted in a recent RCO report. What can be done?

Increasing accessibility through art