15-minute laser is best treatment for glaucoma patients, says study

The 15-minute treatment reduces fluid pressure within the eye.Photograph: BSIP/GettyLasers should become the principal method in the UK for treating patients with the debilitating eye condition glaucoma. That is the stark conclusion of a three-year study published on Sunday.The report, which appears in the Lancet, says the laser technique – known as selective laser trabeculoplasty or SLT – should replace the prescribing of eye drops, the current favoured way to treat glaucoma. The st