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One of the most common eye diseases and for which technological innovations, both in diagnostics and surgery, have enabled extraordinary progress in restoring optimal quality of vision.

Difficulty reading or watching TV? Halos or split images in the presence of light sources such as lamps or headlights? These are typical symptoms of cataracts, one of the diseases......

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition characterised by the progressive deterioration of a type of neurons, called dopaminergic neurons, in the central autonomic and peripheral nervous system. This deterioration is......

The term iritis, or anterior uveitis, is used in medical language to define inflammation of the anterior chamber of the eye and iris. It is the most common form of uveitis, in fact, in Western countries,......

New episode of the L'Oculista Italiano podcast to promote visual wellbeing

Dry eye or 'dry eye' is a complex ophthalmic condition, not a simple discomfort due to temporary dryness or redness of the ocular surface. In medical terms, it is referred to as......

Gestational diabetes is characterised by an elevated blood glucose level, which occurs during pregnancy and usually disappears after delivery. It can occur in any......

Dry eye syndrome (DED) is a pathological condition of a multifactorial nature, thus related to several causative factors, including both physiological and environmental conditions. Among the many factors......

Almost illegible and messy handwriting may be misclassified as dysgraphia, but may instead be due to problems in learning to write by hand, on which it is very important to intervene.

Dysgraphia is a specific learning disorder (S.D.A.), which manifests itself in poor handwriting and makes writing more or less illegible because it is messy, extended outside the......

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) definition, a disease can be defined as rare if it occurs with a frequency of less than 6.5-10 people per 10,000, even if this number......