For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...

Axolotls can regenerate optic nerves, retinas, and parts of their brain. Provost's Undergraduate Research Award-winner Ted ...

A deep-learning model trained on optical coherence tomography scans of the optic nerve head reliably distinguished among various types of optic nerve damage, such as glaucoma, non-arteritic anterior ...

New research links two widely used diabetes drugs, semaglutide or tirzepatide, to a rare but potentially vision-threatening eye condition, raising questions about drug-specific risks and the need for ...

A retrospective cohort study suggested that users of GLP-1 receptor agonists had a 7% higher incidence of new-onset diabetic retinopathy. In patients with existing diabetic retinopathy, use of GLP-1 ...

PHOENIX — Historically, optic nerve involvement has been excluded from multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnostic criteria, but its inclusion in the upcoming 2024 McDonald Diagnostic Criteria is expected to ...

June 6 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk's (NOVOb.CO), opens new tab popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic may in very rare cases cause a serious eye condition that can lead to vision loss, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Optic nerve fiber thickness improved among nearly all patients after SLT and resveratrol. The combination lowers ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - January 2025, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

The human body is complex, and many things can go wrong while a baby is developing. Sometimes, genetic mutations occur, or things don’t form quite right. One condition that can result from ...

Removal of an eye is a drastic procedure that doctors do as a last resort if no other treatment for a serious eye condition provides relief. In the case of cancer, eye removal may be necessary to ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes who use semaglutide have more than double the risk of severe optic nerve damage than those who don’t use the drug. In Grauslund’s study, researchers examined a nationwide ...