A 38-year-old woman with a 15-year history of disposable contact lens (CL) use presented to our clinic, complaining of a foreign body sensation in her eyes. She also had > 8 hours/day of visual ...

Blink frequency of 20 blinks per minute improves tear meniscus height and tear break-up time in dry eye patients. The study involved 45 participants aged 14 to 35, using eye-tracking glasses to ...

Blinking exercises are preplanned, where you make a conscious effort to blink your eyes. They may help with dry eye disease. Dry eye is a common condition where your eyes don’t have enough tears to ...

Changes in the lipid layer of the eyes' natural tear film may contribute to the common problem of contact lens discomfort. Changes in the lipid layer of the eyes' natural tear film may contribute to ...

The latest iteration of an eye-on-a-chip has a mechanical eyelid to simulate blinking and was used to test an experimental drug for dry eye disease. By incorporating human cells into an engineered ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new non-invasive optical imaging system that promises to improve diagnosis and treatments for dry eye disease. Dry eye, which often causes irritation and ...

A new non-invasive optical imaging system could help to improve diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease, a condition arising when the inner layer of the tear film protecting the outside of the eye ...

A collaborative team from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) has developed a contact lens prototype that is specifically designed to prevent contact lens-induced dry eye (CLIDE).

Background Meibomian gland obstruction induces hyposecretion of tear film lipids, which results in lipid layer deficiency and evaporative dry eye. Unfortunately, the importance of blinking in ...

People who spend eight or more hours a day staring at a computer screen may notice their eyes becoming tired or dry, and, if those conditions are severe enough, they may eventually develop dry eye ...

People who spend eight or more hours a day staring at a computer screen may notice their eyes becoming tired or dry, and, if those conditions are severe enough, they may eventually develop dry eye ...