Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Keratoconus is a corneal ectatic disease that affects young individuals with significant visual symptoms. There ...
image: University of Houston biomedical engineer Kirill Larin is expanding the use of Optical Coherence Tomography to peer into the fetal brain to assess how it is impacted by maternal drinking and ...
A South Korean study has found that loss of the corneal reflex — the automatic blink when the eye is touched — is strongly linked to death within 24 hours in hospice patients with advanced cancer.
The technique involves checking the corneal reflex – the automatic blink response that happens when the surface of the eye is gently touched. Scientists found patients who had lost this reflex were ...