More than one in five Americans haven’t visited the optometrist in at least a year and another 15% “can’t remember” the last ...

From bustling urban centres to growing peri-urban communities, millions of people in Africa endure visual impairments that ...

After injury, the visual system can recover by growing new neural connections rather than replacing lost cells. Researchers found that surviving eye cells formed extra branches that restored ...

Costco shoppers have “cart tunnel vision.” They lose all spatial awareness when they walk through the warehouse door. And ...

Glaucoma is often called a “silent thief” of sight because it can slowly damage the eyes without causing clear early symptoms ...

Set yourself up for a lifetime of seeing your best with these eight tips from the experts at the National Eye Institute in ...

Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia and other sites around the region will host free eye screenings for Diabetes Day.

Pickleball-related eye injuries are on the rise in the United States, according to a study published in the journal Eye and ...

A shrimp virus called CMNV has jumped into humans, causing a new eye disease linked to handling and eating raw seafood. The ...

Learn how to prevent bindness by actively monitoring your vision and knowing how to spot the warning signs.

Extreme summer heat causes dry eye syndrome, allergies, conjunctivitis, styes, photokeratitis, and eye strain Symptoms include redness, itching, watering, blurry vision, burning sensation, and pain in ...

When Kekoa Gittens was 3, his preschool teacher told his mother he was a problem. He couldn’t sit still. He didn’t participate. When other kids learned the alphabet, he didn’t pay attention. The next ...