British surgeons have claimed a world first after carrying out a gene therapy operation to tackle the most common cause of sight loss in the developed world.

Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital in

When the slit lamp hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a… radial keratotomy.

And while it doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, this woman’s corneas do have some interesting slices — thanks

An 18-year-old female presents with three days of a red and painful right eye, with reduced vision and light sensitivity.

Each week, How to Treat publishes a clinical picture quiz.

The quiz has no

The “stop it or you’ll go blind” myth had a grain of truth about it for one patient who experienced night blindness and other eye issues after drinking an entire bottle of sildenafil.

The man in his

Patients with type 2 diabetes who take statins for high cholesterol may have a lower risk of developing diabetic retinopathy, a study suggests.

Such patients were 14% less likely to develop

Doctors have been urged to write prescriptions in block capitals after an unfortunate mix-up led to a woman using an erectile dysfunction cream to treat her dry eye.

The UK woman had a handwritten

Three-month-old Jayden is brought in by his parents who report his eyes have never opened equally.

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Unravelling the medical mystery behind Mona Lisa’s smile seems to be a bit of an obsession of late.

Was it clinical hypothyroidism? Was it a lipid disorder and heart disease? Was it Bell’s palsy?

Rates of blindness and impaired vision among Indigenous people have halved over the last decade, as moves to close the gap start to show results.

University of Melbourne ophthalmologist Professor

Late-career surgeons perform a large proportion of cataract operations, and they do it with an overall low rate of adverse events, a Canadian study suggests.

In recent years, researchers have