Cell Phone Eye Test for Cataracts

Claiming that a new iPhone clip-on device for cataract detecting “gathers more information than a visit to an ophthalmologist’s office,” researchers at MIT seem to have created for eye doctors a “disruptive innovation” akin to what the handheld blood glucose meter did to endocrinologists.  If so, “Catra” will allow physicians to spend more time preventing disease than in expensive testing.   MORE

Image Credit: Erick Passos via MIT