This article was originally featured on Undark. This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Lowcountry glaucoma patients will soon have a new option for safer and more efficient laser eye treatment thanks to doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Diabetic retinopathy laser surgery is an in-office treatment that involves making tiny burns in the eye with a beam of light. While it does not correct vision loss that has already occurred, it can ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays. To receive it in your inbox for free sign up here, opens new ...

Regardless of the context, simply pairing the nouns “eye” and “laser” within a single sentence is enough to send a thousand shivers down my spine much à la scratching a chalkboard. My eyes are ...

SAN DIEGO -- Laser treatment for eye floaters fell short of expectations, as the intervention improved patient-perceived floater burden but not intraocular pressure (IOP) or visual acuity, a ...

In patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy who underwent cataract surgery, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) laser capsulotomy was associated with increased risks for progression of the ...

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