Skin that has been exposed to UV rays for a long time burns or peels off. In midsummer, when strong sunlight and heat waves ...

Keratitis is painful inflammation of your cornea -- the clear covering over the pupil and colored part of your eye.Doctors sometimes use the term "corneal ulcer." It's usually caused by an injury ...

However, similar effects on corneal respiration and glucose metabolism, 18 permeability 19 and epithelial mitosis 24 have been observed in experimental neuroparalytic keratitis; thus, it is ...

Wearing contact lenses overnight and failing to change the case can increase your risk for infectious keratitis by 10-fold, ...

Keratitis is painful inflammation of the eye’s clear top layer, the cornea. It can stem from an infection or injury, and it makes vision blurry and the eyes sensitive to light.

But can you swim with contact lenses in? Those who do take a pool plunge with their lenses in could end up with nasty eye ...

Corneal infection, also called keratitis, is relatively rare. Several conditions can cause an infection of the cornea, including: Conjunctivitis (pinkeye).

RGN-259 is a thymosin beta-4–based eye drop designed to rival Dompé’s Oxervate, the only FDA-approved prescription eye drop ...

Corneal thinning, astigmatism and peripheral ulcerative keratitis are the common corneal changes following scleritis.Scleritis can be anterior or posterior.

One of the most severe complications of HSV is herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK), which affects the cornea of the eye and can lead to visual impairment or even blindness.

A corneal ulcer is an open sore or wound on the cornea — the transparent, dome-shaped surface that covers the front of the eye and focuses light into it. Often beginning as keratitis ...

One Instagram influencer is encouraging her followers to take out their contacts before they get in the shower after she developed Acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare but serious eye infection.