If you can see by simply slipping on a pair of glasses, or if you don’t need glasses or contact lenses at all, the gift of sight is something we can easily take for granted. For millions of people ...

The most sensitive and prized possession of the human body are the eyes. General ophthalmologists can treat many conditions affecting the eyes but some symptoms and real issues are specific enough to ...

While rubbing your eyes may seem like a harmless habit, it can damage your cornea. You may end up with a corneal abrasion. Reports from Medscape show that corneal abrasions account for nearly 10% of ...

It can be hard to tell a scratched cornea (corneal abrasion) from pink eye (also known as conjunctivitis) as they have ...

image: Studying mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that proteins made by stem cells to help regenerate the cornea may become new targets for treating ...

Many eye banks won’t accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. “We also found the severity of the donor’s ...

Dry eye disease significantly impacts the reliability of corneal curvature measurements, affecting clinical decisions in refractive surgery and contact lens fitting. The study tested five devices, ...

Immune cells (T cells, green) can be see entering the cornea of the eye, towards the Herpes Simplex Virus- infected cells (light blue). The eye is rich in nerves (purple). [Doherty Institute] ...

Patient selection is vital for safety and management considerations and should be guided by the risk profile gathered from the elicited history, pre-operative tear and corneal function, and choice of ...