Eye Health News

The number of eye injuries from air guns has skyrocketed in recent years, prompting experts to call for mandatory eye protection.

Toys can cause serious eye injuries, even blindness. An estimated 226,100 toy-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms in 2018, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.The American Academy of Ophthalmology offers tips for selecting safe…

New findings hint that wearing eyeglasses may lower your chances of contracting the coronavirus. But the study is controversial. Here's what eye experts say about eye protection and your risk of COVID-19.

A new study suggests that children may experience eye-related symptoms of the coronavirus more often than adults.

Vision screenings for young children usually take place during wellness visits to the pediatrician. But with wellness visits declining during the coronavirus pandemic, many children’s eyes may go unchecked. Here's why you shouldn't skip a vision screen.

An experimental COVID-19 vaccine called AAVCOVID could end the coronavirus pandemic in record time, experts say. Learn how ophthalmic researchers helped drive this groundbreaking development.

The treatment eliminates eye bulging, vision loss and pain in many patients with TED, experts say.

More than one-third of Americans have presbyopia, a loss of near vision with age. Most people reach for eyeglasses or specialty contact lenses, but soon patients may have an additional option: topical eye drops.

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong found that children exposed to secondhand smoke had a significantly thinner choroid, or dense network of blood vessels, than unexposed children.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently proposed new warning labels to illustrate the risks of smoking, including blindness.

Houston Rockets' star, James Harden, suffered a bruised retina in both eyes during the NBA playoffs. But what exactly is a bruised retina?

A survey-based study of more than 6000 adults over age 40 found an association between having glaucoma and having various sleep problems.

A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation may help lower eye pressure in glaucoma patients and improve quality of life by lowering stress hormones. Patients who participated in meditation had lower eye pressure, a significant reduction in stress-related chemicals and…

A new study suggests that CBD doesn’t lower eye pressure; it raises it. High eye pressure is the primary risk factor for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States.

Ophthalmologist Lama Al-Aswad, MD, MPH, is showing that telehealth programs can reduce blindness among the most vulnerable populations living in America's big cities.

New research on a fatal brain infection related to mad cow disease could lead to safe ways to diagnose the infection through the eyes. The findings are also a red flag about the importance of preventing the spread of the infection during eye surgery and other procedures, res…

Interrupting treatment for diabetic eye disease can result in blindness.

A new study shows that an eye scan may be a relatively easy, inexpensive way to test for early Alzheimer’s disease.

Eating a Mediterranean-inspired diet can reduce your risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or having it become more advanced.

Alcon has announced an immediate, voluntary market withdrawal of its device used to treat some types of glaucoma, called the CyPass Micro-Stent.

A California mayor's proposal to bar workplace necktie requirements has some science behind it. But a glaucoma diagnosis isn’t an automatic excuse to ditch your necktie.

Blue light from electronic screens is not making you blind. A recently released study has been creating both concern in the public and alarmist headlines from news outlets worldwide. But experts are cautioning that the news reports are leaping to unfounded conclusions about…

After wearing mascara for 25 years without properly removing it, a woman in Australia discovered a serious problem - mascara buildup under her eyelids.

If a laser with less than five milliwatts of output power is directed at someone's eye, that person can blink or turn away without suffering an eye injury. However, the natural protective mechanisms of the eye – such as the blink reflex – are ineffective against lasers with…

In a small but intriguing study, scientists in England have given blind patients some functional vision, using human embryonic stem cells. Two blind patients regained enough sight to read again after getting stem cell implants in their damaged eyes.