Sep 04, 2023

Meibomian gland dysfunction is one of the most common ocular diseases, with therapeutic treatment being primarily palliative due to our incomplete understanding of meibomian gland (MG) pathophysiology...

Sep 04, 2023

The Tear Film & Ocular Surface Society (TFOS) Workshop entitled 'A Lifestyle Epidemic: Ocular Surface Disease' was a global initiative undertaken to establish the direct and indirect impacts of ev...

Sep 04, 2023

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the main causes of blindness in people around the world. Early diagnosis and treatment of DR can be accomplished by organizing large regular screening programs. Sti...

Sep 04, 2023

Foundation models, often pre-trained with large-scale data, have achieved paramount success in jump-starting various vision and language applications. Recent advances further enable adapting foundatio...

Sep 04, 2023

In 2019, the Food and Drug Administration introduced 11 pictorial warning labels (PWLs) for inclusion on cigarette packages, created in compliance with court recommendations and tailored to increase k...

Sep 04, 2023

To review the literature on the adjuvant use of mitomycin C (MMC) during dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) in adults with primary nasolacrimal duct obstructions (NLDOs) to determine the efficacy in improvin...

Aug 28, 2023

Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. To date, intraocular pressure (IOP) is the only modifiable risk factor in glaucoma treatment, but even in treated patients, the disease...

Aug 28, 2023

To investigate the impact of different duration of blue light exposure on ocular parameters and choroidal blood perfusion in guinea pigs with lens-induced myopia.Three-week-old Guinea pigs were random...

Aug 28, 2023

This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of low-intensity red light (LRL) in controlling myopia progression across three different powers (0.37 mW, 0.60 mW, and 1.20 mW).Single-center, sing...

Aug 28, 2023

Aging is a complex biological process that is characterized by low-grade inflammation, called inflammaging. Aging affects multiple organs including eye and lacrimal gland. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) ...

Aug 28, 2023

Severe dry eye (SDE) can cause grievous damage of the ocular surface and result in vision impairment and even blindness. To investigate the fate of limbal stem cells in SDE and the underlying mechanis...

Aug 28, 2023

This study aims to explore the correlation between central and peripheral thyroid resistance indices and diabetic retinopathy(DR) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), so as to provide a c...

Aug 28, 2023

To identify novel Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) loci and establish polygenic prediction model DESIGN: Genome-wide association study (GWAS) and polygenic risk score (PRS).Total of 64,885 Europ...

Aug 28, 2023

To evaluate the clinical rationale of wavefront-shaping technology, describe how intraocular lenses (IOLs) using wavefront-shaping technology are differentiated from refractive or diffractive optical ...

Aug 21, 2023

Reducing the morbidities caused by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is a central aim of ongoing disease control programmes. The broad spectrum of pathogens under the umbrella of NTDs lead to a range...

Aug 21, 2023

To investigate the knowledge, training and clinical practice of Spanish optometrists about preventing and controlling myopia progression.A web-based questionnaire was distributed to Spanish optometris...

Aug 21, 2023

A cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted from September 2013 through July 2014 to determine the prevalence of refractive errors among students attending public primary schools in Mexico. A...

Aug 21, 2023

To assess the real-time changes in the tear film and ocular surface of symptomatic video display terminal (VDT) versus asymptomatic users.A total of 35 symptomatic (29 ± 5.6 years; Group 1, mild ...

Aug 21, 2023

Diabetic macular edema (DME) is defined as fluid accumulation in the macular region, between the retinal layers, due to many diseases, especially diabetes. DME is one of the major complications of dia...

Aug 21, 2023

For patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), maintaining an independent state of living is important. The present study aimed to examine the loss of social independence (i.e., a status that patie...