Eye Health Medical Reference
- Strabismus (Crossed Eyes)
Strabismus is a condition that causes crossed eyes. Learn more from WebMD about therapy to correct this eye problem, which typically affects children.
- Glossary of Eye Terms
WebMD helps you understand the meanings of many words and terms associated with vision and eye care.
- Eye Exercises
Eye exercises may help correct certain vision problems. Learn more from WebMD.
- How to Protect Your Eyes After Laser Eye Surgery
WebMD explains precautions to take after laser eye surgery.
- Limbal Relaxing Incisions and Astigmatic Keratotomy Eye Surgery
WebMD looks at the eye surgeries called astigmatic keratotomy and radial keratotomy.
- Am I a Candidate for Refractive or Laser Eye Surgery?
WebMD helps you analyze whether you would be a good candidate for refractive or laser eye surgery.
- LASIK Eye Surgery
Information on the laser eye surgery known as LASIK.
- How to Insert Eye Drops
WebMD gives you information about the proper way to insert eye drops.
- LASEK Eye Surgery
WebMD looks at LASEK eye surgery, including its advantages and disadvantages and side effects.
- Eye Problems: What to Expect as You Age
WebMD explains age-related vision problems and how they are treated.
- How to Care for Your Contact Lenses and Eyes
WebMD provides tips on caring for your contact lenses.
- Lazy Eye (Amblyopia)
Amblyopia is a condition in which one of your child's eyes has poorer vision that the other. WebMD explains symptoms and treatment.
- Your Child's Eye Exam: What to Expect
It's important for your child to have regular eye exams. WebMD gives you information on what to expect when having your child's eyes checked and more.
- Could My Kid Be Nearsighted?
Read about nearsightedness – also called myopia – in children.
- Photorefractive Keratectomy Eye Surgery
WebMD explains laser eye surgery called photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK.
- How to Find the Right Contact Lenses
WebMD takes a detailed look at the various types of contact lenses and what they can do for your eyes and vision.
- Retinoblastoma and Your Child's Eyes
Retinoblastoma is a malignant tumor on the retina which occurs in children. WebMD gives information on this eye disease.
- Eyeglasses: Tips to Help You Pick the Right Lenses
WebMD explains different types of eyeglass lenses and lens coatings, along with tips for caring for your spectacles.
- Protecting Your Child's Eyes and Vision
Tips to help keep children's eyes healthy and protect their eyesight.
- Retinal Detachment
WebMD explains the causes, symptoms, risk factors, and treatment of retinal detachment, a very serious eye condition that occurs when the retina pulls away from its supporting tissues.
- Your Child's Eye Exam: What to Expect
WebMD tells you what you need to know to choose an eye doctor.
- Health Insurance and Refractive or Laser Eye Surgery
Health insurers generally won't cover laser eye correction surgery - except in certain circumstances. WebMD explains.
- What Is Low Vision?
Learn more from WebMD about low vision, an impairment that affects 14 million Americans.
- Radial Keratotomy (RK) Eye Surgery
Radial keratotomy is an eye procedure rarely used today.
- A Glossary of Eye Tests and Exams
WebMD offers a guide to the various eye tests used to diagnose eyesight disorders.
- What Is Presbyopia?
Learn about presbyopia, the natural decline in vision that often comes with age.
- Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a progressive vision condition that can lead to permanent blindness. Learn more about the types, causes, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment of glaucoma.
- Pink Eye: What You Should Know
Learn more from WebMD about conjunctivitis - or pink eye - including causes, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.
- Astigmatism
WebMD explains astigmatism, a common eye condition that is easily corrected.
- What Is a Cornea?
Cornea: Understanding the anatomy of the cornea and the role it plays in vision. Learn some of the common ailments and treatment options.
- Myths About Your Eyes and Vision
Fact or fiction? Get the truths behind the myths about your eyes and vision.
- Vision Basics: How Does Your Eye Work?
The human eye is an amazing organ. WebMD explains how it works.
- Black Eye Treatment
WebMD's guide to treating a black eye.
- Black Eye: Understanding the Basics
How can you tell if a black eye is a just "a shiner" or a sign of a serious fracture? Find out how to know and how to care for the bruise.
- Understanding Pink Eye -- Symptoms
Learn the symptoms of pink eye from experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Styes -- Treatment
Get the basics on stye treatments from the eye experts at WebMD.
- How to Prevent Styes
Can styes be prevented? Find out from the experts at WebMD.
- Stye: What Are the Symptoms?
What are the symptoms of a stye or chalazion? Learn more about these common eye problems from the experts at WebMD.
- What Is a Stye?
Get the basics on styes and chalazia, including causes.
- Understanding Astigmatism -- Symptoms
Get the basics on astigmatism symptoms from WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- the Basics
From nearsightedness to glaucoma, get the basics on vision problems from the experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Prevention
Read tips about the prevention of vision problems and eye strain.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Treatment
Get the basics on treatment of various vision problems from the eye experts at WebMD.
- Understanding Vision Problems -- Symptoms
Get a list of symptoms for various vision problems from the eye experts at WebMD.
- Ocular Hypertension
If monitored, intraocular pressure, or pressure inside the eye, may not lead to glaucoma. Learn more here about the causes, diagnosis, symptoms, and treatment of ocular hypertension.