Nearly one-third of Australians aged 55 or over (or around 1.5 million people) have an untreated cataract. In 2013-14, there were 229,693 hospital admissions for cataract surgeries, making cataracts ...

As ophthalmologists who have performed thousands of these procedures, we know that many patients have misconceptions about both cataracts and the surgery. For example, some think a cataract is a ...

Age-related cataracts usually take decades to cause blindness. But certain cataract types can cause vision loss more quickly. Cataracts usually develop in older adults. They remain a leading cause of ...

Cataracts may appear as cloudy, white areas in the middle region of a person’s eyes. A person may not know they have cataracts until their vision becomes blurry and less colorful. A cataract is a ...