The findings from the clinical trial were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Once an individual collects visual input from their environment, they must organize, interpret, evaluate this information to make decisions about how to interact with their environment.

CHOP researchers will use optical coherence tomography (OCT) to measure vision changes associated with NF1-related optic pathway gliomas.

Today, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) appointed Gil Binenbaum, MD MSCE as Chief of the Division of Ophthalmology.

Learning to perform retinal examinations on extremely low birth weight babies is essential to pediatric ophthalmology.

A multicenter group of 41 hospitals led by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has confirmed that an improved method for predicting retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was able to reduce the number of babies having invasive diagnostic examinations by nearly a third, while raising disease detection up to 100%.

In our busy CHOP Ophthalmology practice, we see many aphakic (an eye without the natural crystalline lens) children.

A 4-year-old boy presented to the emergency room reporting 2 weeks of right knee pain, swelling, and limping.

A 10-month-old female infant was referred to the Neuro-ophthalmology clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a new-onset lid ptosis and pupillary miosis on the right side.

Find out how a bold idea led to an astonishing cure for a certain childhood blindness, and learn about the future of gene therapy to treat children, like Hannah.