Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A multidisciplinary approach is key to treating patients with corneal nerve dysfunction and neuropathic ocular ...

Consider the cornea if you will – and most people won't unless they're having a problem. It is the transparent front surface of the eye which allows vision by focusing light as it enters. The cornea ...

New research presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Stockholm, Sweden (19-23 Sept) suggests that damage to nerves in the cornea begins before type 2 ...

Nerve damage and a buildup of immune cells in the cornea may be a sign of "long COVID," a long-term syndrome that emerges in some people after COVID-19 infection, a new study suggests. These ...

Elevated blood glucose poses a threat to the eyes even prior to a diabetes diagnosis, according to a Dutch population study. This corneal nerve damage was seen even in those with prediabetes (-0.08, ...

Every year, thousands of people are blinded suddenly, like Durst, by injuries to their cornea, the dome-shaped lenses that cap each iris. These injuries are often debilitating. In the weeks after his ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Worse glucose status and higher glycemia levels, even at the prediabetes stage, are associated with corneal ...

Bacteria live throughout the human body. The eye was long thought to be an exception. Dr. Anthony St. Leger, a professor of ...

Patients treated with 0.05% urcosimod demonstrated directionally favorable improvements in nerve fiber count and fiber length, trends not observed in the placebo group These findings suggest that ...

More than 150 million Americans have poor vision because of a refractive error. Refractive errors make your vision blurry or hazy, making reading difficult, and can ...