Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new pediatric eye chart successfully measured visual acuity in patients aged 6 to 16 years with vision ranging ...

Three visual acuity tests taken at home produce results comparable to those achieved with standard tests taken in the office, researchers say. All the tests are free. Two measure near vision, and the ...

A new study shows potential for eye tests to be conducted easily and affordably using a smartphone app. An app to test eyesight easily and affordably using a smartphone is as accurate as traditional ...

Results from smartphone-based Snellen charts, which are eye charts used to measure visual acuity, are not consistent with results from standard Snellen visual acuity chart tests, according to a study ...

Finely tuned eye movements are instrumental in enhancing visual acuity, according to findings of a study published in Nature Communications. Finely tuned eye movements are instrumental in enhancing ...

Assessment of visual acuity (VA) has been shown to vary between tests, which may be attributable in part to test inaccuracies, such as a change in the distance between the chart and subject. Therefore ...

A smartphone app was found to be useful and reliable by clinicians when testing vision for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessing vision was found to be easy by families and reliable by ...

What is the farthest a human can see? What is the best recorded visual acuity? How far is the horizon? I am often asked these questions by clinicians and non-ophthalmologists and thought many of you ...

Visual acuity is a measure of how small a detail that is visible can be, and still be identified by a person. The most common way of testing vision is to use an eye chart, (the kind that you see in an ...

Poor visual acuity, defined as difficulty discerning letters or numbers at a given distance, is associated with depression in middle-aged and older individuals, new research suggests. After multiple ...

A study led by pediatric ophthalmology researcher Carolyn Drews-Botsch of George Mason University can help parents and health care providers decide whether or not to continue patching their children ...