When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that ...

Thyroid eye disease (TED) occurs in about 40% of people with Graves’ disease. Surgery may help when TED affects eye function or structure. Orbital decompression creates more space behind the eye by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgeons undertaking live surgery will often be in an unfamiliar environment, in a theater they never have ...

Surgery is the only way to remove a cataract. It involves removing the damaged lens of the eye and replacing it with an artificial lens to restore vision. Cataract surgery typically takes around an ...

A vitrectomy is the surgical procedure for treating diabetic retinopathy. Surgery is aimed at getting better access to your retina to improve or stop vision loss from this diabetes complication.

Endoscopic orbital decompression is a surgery to treat Graves’ orbitopathy (thyroid eye disease). It removes the middle and bottom walls of the bone surrounding the eye. Surgeons use endoscopes and ...

Laser photocoagulation is a type of eye surgery. It’s not a common way to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but it might be the right choice for some people. Talk to your doctor about ...

Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. It seems bizarre, but the ...