NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There was good news Thursday, for parents and kids born with lazy eye -- which doctors call amblyopia. It's much easier than the usual eye patch, it's an iPad game. As CBS2's ...

Seven-year-old Luis Garcell says he loves reading and math. Seconds later, after gazing upward and thinking it over, the first-grader at Corkscrew Elementary switches the order: He loves math first ...

Amblyopia affects three out of every 100 kids. Age 2 is the ideal time to detect and treat it, vision experts say, but that doesn’t happen often. Three children in 100 have amblyopia or “lazy eye,” a ...

In the "ThemenCheck Medizin" procedure offered by the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), interested members of the public can submit proposals for the assessment of ...

Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is the most common cause of vision loss in children. And the condition, which compromises depth perception, can last into adulthood. But until recently, treatments for ...

Rather than wearing an eye patch, kids can watch TV shows and movies using a VR headset every day. The new system was developed by Luminopia and is called Luminopia One. It combines a VR headset with ...

For centuries, eyepatches have been the gold standard for treating amblyopia, also known as “lazy eye.” Amblyopia is the most common cause of visual impairment in children, health experts say, and is ...

Adults who had amblyopia ('lazy eye') in childhood are more likely to experience hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome in adulthood, as well as an increased risk of heart attack, finds a new ...