Lydia Patrick is a Newsweek Life and Trends Reporter based in London, focusing on emerging trends, human interest stories, and women's issues. She previously uncovered a growing pattern of knife crime ...

Blunt trauma to your eye can cause an injury known as a bruised retina, or commotio retinae. This usually heals on its own within a week or up to a month, though that largely depends on how severe the ...

Temporarily anesthetizing the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development ...

About a year ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first eye drop that could be used to improve the vision of people with a condition called presbyopia — the term doctors use for ...

Two UB scientists have received federal grants totaling more than $640,000 to conduct research into the function and development of the human vision system. The grants were awarded by the National Eye ...

There are a few notable tech inventions that have changed the medical industry forever. From the use of AI for disease detection to 3D printing biomedical implants and drugs, advances in modern ...