Smartphones have seamlessly blended into our daily lives for work, communication, entertainment, and even health tracking.

As people age, their eyes change, making it important to stay informed about eye health. Lifestyle choices like wearing ...

Bar Harbor, Maine– While studying mice with a mutant gene whose counterpart causes inherited glaucoma in humans, researchers have discovered a second gene mutation that worsens the structural eye ...

Reducing the risk of eye diseases involves a combination of lifestyle changes, protective measures and regular eye care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimate is based on data from nearly 6,800 births that occurred in the U.S. and its territories from ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

In recent decades, the microbiome has emerged as a dynamic ecosystem, an “invisible organ” that plays a crucial role in systemic health and, more recently, in ophthalmology.When naturally balanced, ...

A new study finds that Zika infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can impact fetal retinal development and cause congenital ocular anomalies. The virus does not appear to affect ocular ...

An opthalmologist, Zainab Akinbode, has advised Nigerians to desist from using substances such as breast milk and urine as remedies to treat eye defects. Dr. Akinbode said such practices could cause ...

Kala Bio missed the primary endpoint in the study for its treatment of Persistent Corneal Epithelial Defect, an eye defect, and said it would stop development of the drug, called KPI-012. The company ...