As many as 5 percent of children suffer from amblyopia, or "lazy eye, "which causes an otherwise normal eye to lose proper vision. Often the result of a misalignment of the eyes, lazy eye is treatable if caught early-but diagnosis is trickier in children too young to read an eye chart. So Johns Hopkins pediatric ophthalmologist David Hunter and his colleagues have built a device to check eye alignment automatically.

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