A 65-year-old white woman presented with 9 months of intermittent “kaleidoscopic” visual disturbances and blurred vision upon ...

The human eye is often described metaphorically as the "window to the soul," but in clinical medicine, it is more accurately viewed as a non-invasive window into the human body's circulatory and ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers believe that high doses of semaglutide may reduce blood flow to the optic nerve, which could lead to eye stroke. Maria Korneeva/Getty Images A new study has found that ...

Researchers found that the odds of developing an eye condition that leads to vision loss were about 5 times higher among ...

NAION (Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy) officially describes vision loss caused by reduced blood flow to the optic nerve ...

An increased risk for ischemic optic neuropathy may be associated with formulation- and dose-dependent GLP-1 receptor agonist use.

The results of this obesity medication are literally eye-popping. A new review of adverse effects reports to the FDA between the years 2017 and 2024 reveals that Ozempic and Wegovy have both been ...

Ischaemic optic neuropathy (ION) is a rare but vision-threatening complication recently linked to GLP-1 receptor agonists, particularly semaglutide. Using over 30 million reports from the FDA Adverse ...

Wegovy, a GLP-1 agonist for weight loss, may carry the highest risk of "eye stroke" (ischemic optic neuropathy) and sudden sight loss of the semaglutide drugs, finds an analysis of unintended side ...

Every year, thousands of people are blinded suddenly, like Durst, by injuries to their cornea, the dome-shaped lenses that cap each iris. These injuries are often debilitating. In the weeks after his ...

In late 2025, a group of researchers that included Maria Emfietzoglou, MD, and Victor S.M.C. Correa, MD, published a paper titled, “Inner Plexiform Layer Substrata Are Discernible with Commercial OCT ...