Diabetes is a systemic disease, which means it affects many organs, including the heart, blood vessels, nerves, kidneys and ...

Doctors warn that diabetes can silently damage the eyes long before other symptoms appear, making regular eye check-ups vital ...

Fundoscopy can detect diabetic retinopathy. The exam involves a bright light shined into the eye, allowing an eye doctor to see any potential issues happening in the back of the eye. Share on ...

As the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers took the field for the Super Bowl in 2011, Odette Crawford noticed the screen looked blurry. She had just had an eye exam and received a new ...

Often, your eyes can reveal more about your overall health than you expect, and sometimes even before other physical symptoms ...

The learning curve was steep when Ofelia Alvarez was first diagnosed with diabetes in her 30s. She had watched family members struggling with the condition. “But I really didn’t know exactly what I ...

November is Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month. Experts share tips on prevention, early symptoms, and why yearly dilated ...

Why are diabetic eye exams important? Dr. Stephen Spann, Dean of the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine explains. “Retinopathy is a complication of diabetes that affects the blood vessels ...

If you've never stopped to think about your diabetes risk, there's no time like the present! Currently, more than 100 million Americans are living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. According to the ...

The frequency of eye exams among insured patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the United States is "alarmingly low," new research indicates. Findings from an analysis of nationwide IBM Watson ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) boosts the screening rate for potentially blinding diabetes eye disorders in a diabetes clinic compared with referral to an eye care provider (ECP) in a racially and ...

While eye drops can help with diabetes-related symptoms, such as dry eyes or irritation, they do not treat the underlying retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes-related complication that ...