Ophthalmology

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found a new mechanism by…

Credit: The work was done by Sohrab Najafian in the laboratory of Jose Manuel Alonso at the State University of New York College of Optometry. The human visual brain devotes most of its neuronal resources to process the part of the…

Beloved, late retina surgeon is remembered, his family receives standing ovation as hospital leaders announce early outpouring of support with over 1 million dollars raised for research fund in his name Awards were presented to…

One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person's ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals - from lizards to humans - to pinpoint the location of danger, prey and…

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A new study published today by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and UT Health's McGovern Medical School in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals an unprecedented…

Esport athletes at risk for physical, psychological and metabolic disorders, according to study in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association CHICAGO--November 4, 2019-- Across the U.S. the esports athlete is a rising class of…

What The Study Did: What the association is between decreasing the number of opioid tablets prescribed to patients after corneal surgery and their opiod use and pain control was the focus of this observational study. To access the…

In a first-of-its-kind clinical report, retina specialists at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) have shown that severe vision loss from a self-prescribed high dose of over-the-counter niacin is linked to injury of a…

Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU reports first-ever nonhuman primate model for Bardet-Biedl Syndrome A genetic mutation that leads to a rare, but devastating blindness-causing syndrome has been discovered in monkeys for the…

Findings could have implications for understanding of human vision and diagnosis of vision anomalies TORONTO, October 24, 2019-Vision researchers at York University have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system…