The streaming of real-time information across your field of vision is a step closer to reality with the development of a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with hands-free information updates...

These days those without some sort of smartphone seem to be in the minority. That means more people than ever are taxing their eyes, squinting to see the tiny letters on a screen for minutes or sometimes hours at a time.

Reading, writing and arithmetic is hard for some children. It's even harder for those with vision problems.

A research team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists has identified a potential new target for treatment of the childhood eye tumor retinoblastoma. Their work also settles a scientific debate by showing the cancer's cellular origins are as scrambled as the developmental pathways at work in the tumor...

For cleaning soft contact lenses with multipurpose disinfection solutions, the "rub and rinse" technique is most effective for eliminating micro-organisms-even when using "no-rub" disinfection solutions, according to a report in the August issue of Optometry and Vision Science , official journal of the American Academy of Optometry .