Home visual acuity tests could ease pressure on ophthalmic services by facilitating remote review of patients. Home tests may have further utility in giving service users frequent updates of vision ...

Virtual Vision Health, a global leader in virtual reality-based ophthalmic diagnostic and patient engagement technologies, today announced significant company milestones that underscore its continued ...

Credit: Shutterstock. Individuals can complete the test in approximately 6 minutes, at which point the test results will be made available to an eye care professional. The Food and Drug Administration ...

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 ...

Online eyewear and vision care company Visibly announced it had received FDA 510(k) clearance for its at-home vision test. The Visibly Digital Acuity Product uses a touchscreen mobile device, like a ...

Measurements for three at-home self-administered visual acuity (VA) tests were within one line of Snellen acuity compared within-office VA measurements, according to a study published online March 31 ...

We evaluated the Runge card, a near-vision eye chart designed for ease of use, by testing agreement in visual acuity results between it and the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) ...

Study results, published in JAMA Ophthalmology, showed the Home Acuity Test can be used to measure visual acuity by telephone for a wide range of outpatients with diverse conditions under the care of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We are excited to be developing a simple test that clinicians can use to estimate the level of vision in ...

Struggling to read more than six lines on an eye chart with fading letters may serve as a visual "yellow light" for older ...

Theta 1 and Theta 2 Orionis are two multiple-star systems within the Orion Nebula (M42). Theta1 includes several stars; the four brightest comprise the Trapezium star cluster at the heart of M42. To ...

recognize the same faces, a person with poor visual acuity would have to get significantly closer. In the workplace, there is a multitude of tasks in which it is important to see fine details. Some ...