A Korean cohort study links switching from cigarettes to vapes with a 7% higher risk of major vision-impairing eye diseases ...

People who switch to vaping or other non-combustible nicotine products after quitting cigarettes may still face a higher risk of developing serious eye ...

In this prospective study, 23 PED patients were treated with off-label ophthalmic application of insulin eye drops at Farabi Eye Hospital from July 2019 to April 2021. The study was conducted with the ...

Aging plays a significant role in the development of conditions that can lead to blindness. However, most of these can be ...

Scientists at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have developed a zebrafish model of NEDBEH—a rare genetic disorder that can cause coloboma, where parts of the eye are missing due to developmental ...

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 ...

A study using tiny retinas grown in a lab has revealed how subtle changes in a key growth-controlling protein can lead to a condition causing serious eye defects from birth. The findings, published in ...

A coloboma is a missing piece of tissue in a person's eye. It is a congenital condition (meaning one you are born with) that can affect any part of the eye but is most common on the color part of the ...

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 ...

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