Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

A cross-disciplinary University of Waterloo team has developed a new contact lens material that could act as a bandage for corneal wounds while releasing drugs in a controlled manner to help the eye ...

EyeGate Pharmaceuticals’ Ocular Bandage Gel eye drop improved corneal re-epithelialization better than a bandage contact lens in a pivotal PRK study, thus achieving the study’s primary endpoint, ...

Wearing contact lenses can lead to dry eyes. Dry eye is a condition where your eyes cannot make enough tears to lubricate and nourish the eye. Symptoms may include burning, stinging, blurry vision, ...

This was a retrospective case series of 74 patients who were treated with therapeutic BSCLs from January 2006 to January 2009 for complicated ocular surface disease. As this was a retrospective series ...

Contact lenses make it easier for people with poor vision to work and carry out daily tasks. About 45 million people in the U.S. use them to correct their vision. Soft contact lenses are the same size ...

There were a total of 102 discrete treatment intervals (74 patients) with complete records that received therapeutic BSCLs over a 3-year period from January 2006 to January 2009 (Table 1). Diseases ...