University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have developed an early-stage, experimental "living eye drop" that uses naturally occurring eye bacteria to support corneal wound healing. The ...

Dry eye has emerged as an early warning sign of autoimmune disease, appearing roughly three years before many patients receive a formal diagnosis. That gap reframes a common irritation as a potential ...

Bacteria live throughout the human body. The eye was long thought to be an exception. Dr. Anthony St. Leger, a professor of ...

Studying mice, researchers have found that proteins made by stem cells to help regenerate the cornea may become new targets for treating and preventing injuries to the cornea related to dry eye ...

PITTSBURGH - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers have developed an early-stage, experimental "living eye drop" that uses naturally ...

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 ...

In vivo laser axotomy of a single subbasal fiber (SBF) in an adult mouse. The Ocular Neurobiology laboratory at the Institute for Neurosciences, a joint center of Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in ...

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, ...

Astigmatism is a common eye condition where the cornea (outermost eye layer) is irregular. The cornea is usually round like a sphere, but people with astigmatism have oval-shaped corneas. This shape ...

Taiwanese study puts numbers to common but poorly studied phenomenon ...

About 600 corneal transplantations are performed in Denmark every year. Most of them are performed as treatment of the eye disease "Fuchs endothelial dystrophy," which causes cellular layers on the ...

If your eyes are often dry and itchy, there could be many causes. Issues like dry air and dehydration are common causes of dry eyes. But chronic dry eyes could be caused by an ocular surface disease ...