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 ...

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 ...

For generations, adults with amblyopia were told their vision loss was permanent, a childhood problem that medicine could not meaningfully reverse later in life. A new wave of research from MIT and ...

Surgery is never a small thing, and it always changes lives (for better or worse), but one man recently shared recovery photos from his eye surgery to show how fixing his eye changed much more than ...

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 ...

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

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.” ...

I have a lazy eye, and kids used to call me names. I've learned to put a positive spin on it, and I highlight features that I like. But as an adult, I still feel insecure sometimes. "Are you looking ...

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 ...

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 ...