Because the cornea is an avascular, low-cell-density tissue that relies on aqueous humor circulation to maintain metabolism, ...

Maureen Cronin, a New York lifeguard, nearly lost her vision in one eye after contracting acanthamoeba keratitis by wearing ...

″ [Sleeping with contact lenses in your eyes] is bad. It’s real bad. Don’t do it,” Redfern told us, adding that this even ...

Dog owners should keep a lookout for early signs to prevent an advanced onset of genetic diseases.  Read more at straitstimes ...

A study found that injecting mesenchymal stem cells into periocular tissue effectively reduces eye inflammation without ...

Wearing contact lenses the wrong way can harm your eyes. This may lead to infections like microbial keratitis, corneal ulcers ...

The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to help the virus copy itself in mammals — including humans — more ...

Ulcers will heal themselves. The antibiotic is really just there as a prophylactic therapy to help prevent infection, just because dogs are very, very prone to getting infected ulcers compared to ...

Four patients recovered from the infection, and three underwent therapeutic keratoplasty ... with fungal keratitis presenting with anterior chamber involvement or corneal ulcers who did not respond to ...

Two patients developed infectious corneal infiltrates (3/103, 2.9%). Two of 3 MK episodes were in patients with limbal stem-cell deficiency (2/102, 2.0%). Conclusions: Therapeutic SiH BSCLs were ...

A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess, is a collection of pus and bacteria that forms inside the tooth or gum. To reduce the risk of complications, a person should seek treatment for a tooth ...

In addition to possible permanent vision loss, the longer the shield ulcer persists, the greater the likelihood of sterile ulceration, corneal scars, bacterial keratitis, amblyopia and globe ...