Chesapeake Hampton Newport News Norfolk N. Carolina Peninsula Portsmouth Suffolk Va. In five years, doctors may be able to monitor the development of glaucoma by inserting a hair-thin pressure sensor into the eye and reading the information it transmits to a computer.
Ocular pharmacology is the branch of medicine that specializes in medications to treat eye diseases.
He made the donation to National Glaucoma Research, a program of the American Health Assistance Foundation, which will oversee the medical school's use of the money. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in the United States and affects about 3 million people, according to the Glaucoma Research Foundation. About half of glaucoma patients don't know they have the disease. Williams and Crouch, who also is an associate professor of pediatrics, have been researching drugs to fight the disease since the late 1980s. Glaucoma, which is more common as people age, gradually robs a person of peripheral vision, so that the field of sight becomes smaller and smaller.