Sleeping without pillows may help lower high internal eye pressure, the build-up of which causes optic nerve damage and ...

Glaucoma is the second most common cause of blindness in the United States and worldwide. [1,2] It is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by nerve atrophy and loss of retinal ganglion cells.

UH College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan has received $765,000 from the National Institutes of Health to examine an understudied part of glaucoma - the ebb and flow of ...

Gel-like fluids inside the eye help it maintain its shape, which plays an important role in overall eye health. These substances are called the vitreous humor and aqueous humor. Vitreous is a ...