For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not meaningfully reverse later in life. A new wave of research from MIT and ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — An incident involving hand sanitizer leaves a boy with a severe eye injury. Thirteen-year-old Nainoa is still in pain after another child at his school threw a paper towel filled ...

When one eye is deprived of vision early in life, it can lead to amblyopia, a condition more commonly known as lazy eye. This happens because a lack of input disrupts synapse formation in the brain's ...

A new study's findings may transform worldwide treatment for the most common childhood visual disease, and the Philadelphia area can now call one of the lead researchers a local. Amblyopia, or lazy ...

Dry eyes can happen to anyone, but severe dry eye, or even dry eye disease, is a more complex problem. Our eyes are coated with fluid — tears — that keep them hydrated, clean away debris, and ...

Rebooting the Eye To test this theory, the team injected an anesthetic called tetrodotoxin into the lazy eye of lab animals ...

Children with "lazy eye" are more likely to become adults facing an array of serious health problems, a new study warns. Kids diagnosed with amblyopia are more likely to develop high blood pressure, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Amblyopia in childhood was associated with increased cardiometabolic risk in adulthood. Causality between ...

Exercises such as dot-to-dot cards, coloring within lines, and a Brock string test may help strengthen the eyes. In some cases, eye patches and glasses can also help. Lazy eye (amblyopia) is a ...

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 ...