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 ...

Fluoroquinolones. Fluoroquinolones are broad-spectrum, bactericidal anti-infective agents with potent balanced activity against gram-positive and gram-negative pathogens. 14,45 Fluoroquinolones are ...

For bacterial pink eye, antibiotics are prescribed to help clear the infection more quickly. But it’s possible for the condition to persist or return. Pink eye, or conjunctivitis, is a common eye ...

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 ...

Pathogens associated with acute infectious conjunctivitis varied among regions, a cross-sectional study showed. Among 52 patients from four sites in the U.S. and one in Israel, RNA deep sequencing ...

How quickly symptoms of pink eye develop depends on the cause. Allergic pink eye may develop suddenly. Bacterial or viral pink eye can take 12 hours to 12 days for symptoms to appear. Pink eye ...

The eye has three coats (sclera–cornea, uvea, and retina) and two humors (aqueous and vitreous). The conjunctiva covers the visible portion of the sclera (bulbar conjunctiva) and lines the eyelids ...

Pink eye, medically known as conjunctivitis, affects millions of Americans each year. This common eye condition can range from mildly irritating to seriously uncomfortable, depending on its cause and ...

Allergic conjunctivitis is not contagious, but other types of conjunctivitis, such as viral or bacterial, are. People can take steps to prevent transmission of the contagious types. These steps ...

A 10-year study of cultures obtained between 1994 and 2003 from patients with bacterial conjunctivitis found a threefold increase in resistance to ciprofloxacin for gram-positive pathogens (11.7% to ...