A new study finds that Zika infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can impact fetal retinal development and cause congenital ocular anomalies. The virus does not appear to affect ocular ...

A new study from UCLA Health shows that a cardiovascular risk score already used routinely in primary care can predict who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The estimate is based on data from nearly 6,800 births that occurred in the U.S. and its territories from ...

Bar Harbor, Maine– While studying mice with a mutant gene whose counterpart causes inherited glaucoma in humans, researchers have discovered a second gene mutation that worsens the structural eye ...

When University of Delaware doctoral student Sandeep Aryal took the initiative to learn additional research techniques to study proteins present in the eye, his work resulted in the discovery of a new ...

Researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a gene therapy that rescues cilia defects in retinal cells affected by a type of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a disease that ...

Researchers led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have, for the first time, recorded a tiny mechanical “twitch” ...

As people age, their eyes change, making it important to stay informed about eye health. Many vision issues are manageable ...

An opthalmologist, Zainab Akinbode, has advised Nigerians to desist from using substances such as breast milk and urine as remedies to treat eye defects. Dr. Akinbode said such practices could cause ...