A Woman's World editor says her eye health journey lasted over a year and a half and led to four surgeries. It began in ...

Tractional retinal detachment occurs if scar tissue in the eye causes the retina to move out of position. It requires immediate medical attention. The retina is a light-sensitive layer of cells at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to tell me that at the beginning of the year, I would spend half of it going blind, having eye surgery and dealing ...

Early diagnosis is critical for effective treatment and to maximize the chances of a successful recovery. If doctors suspect TRD, they will treat it as a medical emergency. The effectiveness of the ...

The retina is a layer of tissue at the back of the eye that converts visual images into nerve impulses in the brain. Injuries to the eye can cause layers of the retina to separate, which is known as a ...

Dear Doctors: I was rubbing my face and a cluster of new floaters appeared in my right eye. There’s also an arc of light when I look from side to side. I’m told it might be vitreous detachment and ...

In children with Marfan syndrome who undergo lens removal, the risk for retinal detachment increases 16-fold when capsular residue is present and by 30% with increase in axial length. Researchers ...

About 1 in 20 people who have had a laser procedure to patch a retinal tear will have another retinal tear or, worse, a retinal detachment after they have cataract surgery, an analysis of a large ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Figure 1. From left, a fundus photograph of the right eye shows peripheral avascular retina. The optic nerve was normal in color but appears pale due to camera flash in this photo. A fundus photograph ...