Tag: optometry

URMC researchers have created the first patient-derived laboratory model of macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in older adults. With the new model, the team has identified ...

Flaum Eye Institute’s Scott MacRae, M.D., an international leader in LASIK vision correction, is the first in the Finger Lakes region to provide the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, which treats ...

A new study out today in Neurology, provides the first evidence that rigorous visual training restores rudimentary sight in patients who went partially blind after suffering a stroke. Patients who ...

URMC’s Flaum Eye Institute is one of five institutions partnering with Microsoft in a new international network aimed at improving eye care worldwide using artificial intelligence.

URMC researchers have developed a new imaging technique that allowed the first glimpse of individual cells in the retina, a layer of tissue at the back of the eye. The new technique could allow ...

UR Medicine has acquired Visionary Eye Associates to join Flaum Eye Institute, a national leader in vision care and research.

URMC's director of the Refractive Surgery Center in the Flaum Eye Institute, Scott MacRae, M.D., will be presented with the Jose I. Barraquer Award at the annual meeting of the American Academy of ...

UR Medicine Flaum Eye Institute Director Steven Feldon, M.D., M.B.A., will be honored by the Association for Blind and Visually Impaired during its 2016 Visionary Gala: Sea Great Things Saturday, ...

UR Medicine’s Flaum Eye Institute is opening a comprehensive optical shop at College Town, providing eye exams, prescription eyewear, contact lenses and sunglasses. The Strong Vision shop will open ...

Doctors at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Flaum Eye Institute are using the tiniest device ever approved by the Food & Drug Administration to help prevent the blinding effects of ...