The upper eyelid should be included in assessments of meibomian gland health, according to a review published in Cornea.Even ...

Failing to keep your eyelids clean can cause dryness redness infections such as blepharitis and even loss of eyelashes Heres ...

Dry eye affects up to 16 million people in the US, and new treatments aim to mitigate the symptoms that can disrupt quality of life in these patients.

Aim To explore the relationship between serum concentration of sex hormones and dry eye symptoms and signs in postmenopausal women. Methods A cross-sectional analysis was undertaken. Subjects were 46 ...

Thyroid nodules are growths in the thyroid gland, a small organ in your neck located in front of your windpipe (trachea). The thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone, which regulates many of your ...

Objectives This study aimed to determine the impact of meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) on quality of life and psychosomatic conditions. Design This was a clinic-based cross-sectional study. Setting ...

A salivary gland infection is also called sialadenitis and is caused by bacteria or viruses. A salivary stone or other blockage of the salivary gland duct can contribute to an acute infection. Chronic ...

This paper presents a label-free gland segmentation, GlandSAM, which achieves comparable performance with supervised methods while no label is required during its training or inference phase. We ...

In this review we have critically evaluated the proposed pathogenetic mechanism for MGD involving hyperkeratinization of the meibomian gland duct leading to obstruction, cystic dilation and ...