The Maha Kumbh at Prayagraj has drawn pilgrims for the holy dip at Triveni Sangam. While it's spiritually purifying, eye care ...

A New York woman, 53, was left blind in one eye after wearing contact lenses in the pool, leading to her contracting a ...

Both treatment groups had sustained improvements in OSDI, Dry Eye Questionnaire and Symptom Assessment in Dry Eye scores. The MGrx device may have time and space advantages vs. conventional treatment.

It has been predicted by the American Academy of Ophthalmology that over the next 30 years, there will be a sharp rise in ...

Changing to dailies is worth considering: One study found that people who wear reusable contact lenses are about four times more at risk of developing acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare eye infection ...

Reason for decision Anticipate the topic will be of importance to patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and the health of the public to ensure clinical benefit is realised, inequalities in ...

Methods: This was a prospective case series of seven eyes with fungal keratitis with anterior chamber involvement or a corneal ulcer refractory to conventional topical treatment. In addition to ...

Vajpayee et al44 recently published a retrospective case–control study, in which they compared the role of PACK-CXL in patients with culture-positive fungal keratitis ... or recurrence of infection; ...

However, vinegar's acidity can be very irritating to your skin and may cause burns in some people. Home remedies for any type of infection (including fungal infections) should not be used without ...

1Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Oncology, JXHC Key Laboratory of Tumor Metastasis, Jiangxi Cancer Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang Medical College, Jiangxi Cancer Institute, Nanchang, ...

However, fungal infections are contagious, and psoriasis is not. The causes and treatment are also different. The autoimmune activity in psoriasis causes the rapid overgrowth of skin cells.

1 Moorfields Eye Hospital ... which may aid in the early diagnosis of fungal, Acanthamoeba or Nocardia infection. PCR for microbial keratitis is a promising technique and offers a rapid, sensitive ...