NEI Research News

Researchers supported by the National Eye Institute have determined that light reduction has no effect on the development of a potentially blinding eye disorder in low birthweight infants

Follow-up results from a study of premature babies with a potentially blinding condition confirm that a freezing treatment applied to their eyes helps save their sight.

Briefly freezing a portion of the eye’s surface can protect many premature infants against blindness from retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a disease that causes visual loss in 2,600 infants in the United States annually.