Vision loss is a serious and common symptom of corneal injuries, with more than 1.5 million cases of corneal blindness reported every year. Corneal injuries typically result from a trauma or an ...

Each year in the US, over 40,000 people receive transplants of the cornea—the clear front part of the eye that light goes through first. Still more patients with damaged corneas might receive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NovaBay Pharmaceuticals announced the launch of a prescription optic allograft for protecting the ocular surface ...

A patient presents to our resident ophthalmology clinic with a 1-day history of a nail piercing his eye while doing construction work. Fortunately, the trauma is not high speed and the damage is ...

A new stem cell therapy has repaired blinding damage to the cornea in 93% of patients in an early clinical trial.

An injectable biomaterial activated by pulses of low-energy blue light has tremendous potential for on-the-spot repair to the domed outer layer of the eye, a team of University of Ottawa researchers ...

New research that sheds light on how the immune system responds to serious eye infections is underway at Wayne State ...

An injectable biomaterial activated by pulses of low-energy blue light has tremendous potential for on-the-spot repair to the domed outer layer of the eye, a team of researchers and their ...

An adhesive gel packed with light-activated chemicals can seal cuts or ulcers on the cornea -- the clear surface of the eye -- and then encourage the regeneration of corneal tissue, according to a ...

As scary as it might sound, cornea transplant surgery is actually very safe. Advances in the past 10 years have even allowed eye surgeons to shorten recovery time for some procedures from six months ...