Residents of the Weija-Gbawe constituency in the Greater Accra Region are benefiting from a large-scale community health ...

By Elsie Appiah-Osei, GNA Accra, March 08, GNA—The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Weija-Gbawe, Mr. Jerry Ahmed Shaib, has brought hope to hundreds of residents through his ...

Police have arrested an unlicensed practitioner who allegedly used bee stingers to treat eye conditions at an illegal clinic ...

Aims To determine the prevalence and clinicopathological features of malignant melanocytic lesions in specimens clinically diagnosed as pterygia. Methods This retrospective study analysed all ...

Many Nigerians continue to suffer from avoidable vision problems, with cataracts and other eye conditions being major causes ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Pterygium is a fibrovascular proliferation that invades the cornea. This proliferation can lead to blindness by altering its transparency. The wide variability in its prevalence ...

4 Hebei Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Shijiazhuang, China 5 Institute of Chronic Disease, Shijiazhuang Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Shijiazhuang, China 6 Institute of ...

In our article “Correlation between the presumed pterygium with dry eye and with systemic and ocular risk factors,” the assessment for the categorization of presumed pterygium in the participants was ...

A bump on your eyeball is often not harmful, but it's important to see a doctor to make sure it's not serious. Wearing sunglasses can help prevent pinguecula and pterygium, which are bumps caused by ...

Pain in the corner of the eye can be caused by an infection in the tear duct, known as dacryocystitis. A sty, or hordeolum, can cause pain in the corner of the eye and usually goes away in one to two ...

We reviewed the evidence to see which surgery used to treat pterygium (a growth in the eye) is better and safer? We wanted to known which surgery was better at preventing the pterygium from growing ...

What is the aim of this review? The aim of this Cochrane Review was to find out if it is better to use fibrin glue or sutures (stitches) when operating on a pterygium (unwanted growth of tissue on the ...