This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

A contact lens wearer may never see from his left eye again after a rare parasite infected him. Doctors told Mike Krumholz it may have entered his eye after he napped in his contacts. They initially ...

Your eyes are exposed to bacteria from your hands, the environment and other factors. Normally, your tears work to flush ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Mason's eye three years after being diagnosed (Marie Mason / SWNS) A grandmother has lost an eye after it became infected ...

The eye has three coats (sclera–cornea, uvea, and retina) and two humors (aqueous and vitreous). The conjunctiva covers the visible portion of the sclera (bulbar conjunctiva) and lines the eyelids ...

Corneal damage is the fourth most common cause of blindness in the world after glaucoma, cataracts, and age-related macular degeneration. Up to 18 percent of all emergency room traumas are eye ...

Tiffani Zeleny wore her contacts while inner tubing on a lake earlier this summer and now is plagued with an amoeba in her eye. The same kind of microorganism killed a young boy in Nebraska last month ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A corneal ulcer refractory to medical management often proceeds to therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty in the ...

When we think of blindness, conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, or retinal diseases often come to mind. However, there is another cause — less talked about but equally devastating — that begins with ...