For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not ...

Rebooting the Eye To test this theory, the team injected an anesthetic called tetrodotoxin into the lazy eye of lab animals ...

While current treatments focus on forcing the impaired eye to become more active, they are often only effective during ...

Often described in non-clinical terms as lazy eye, amblyopia affects about 2 to 3 in every 100 children. In fact, it's the most common cause of visual impairment among kids, according to the National ...

Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin — a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye. The California girl last week became one of a ...

My experience through eye surgery was tough, but it was worth it. My regular eye doctor said I had to go to a different eye doctor. When we went to that eye doctor, he said we had to go to another eye ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 65-year-old woman. As a child, I had what we called “lazy eye.” My condition was that my right eye was aligned noticeably outward. I believe this is referred to as “exotropia.” ...

Laser eye surgery can help treat a variety of eye conditions and improve vision quality. Treatments such as LASIK have become increasingly popular, but not everyone is a candidate for this surgery. In ...

Luke Littler has disclosed that he underwent significant corrective eye surgery during his childhood to address a condition ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...