A bout 76 percent of all non-visually impaired people experience something known as "floaters". These appear as moving ...

Bipolar disorder is a complex mental health condition characterized by a potential breadth of both manic and depressive symptoms, such as a euphoric mood and decreased need for sleep, shifting to loss ...

Reading your prescription starts by identifying which values belong to which eye. “OD” refers to your right eye and “OS” to ...

There’s a dark spot floating in front of your eye, but when you try to look directly at it, it scoots away. What the heck? These little shadows are known as floaters, and like gray hair and laugh ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

Air pollution directly affects eye health causing irritation and long-term damage. Urban residents face rising cases of dry ...

Having dry, itchy, red eyes caused by allergies, cold, dry weather, contact lenses or specific medical conditions can be frustrating. But one product that can provide relief is eye drops, which you ...

Eye freckles, or ocular nevi, are pigmented spots that appear in or on the eye, similar to a mole on the skin. They are usually harmless and do not cause symptoms or affect vision. Noticing a spot on ...