The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Healthy You - July 2025, The Gazette’s quarterly health publication.

Under-eye swelling is a common cosmetic concern. Puffiness after a late night, salty meal, or crying usually clears up within a day. Discharge, pain, and other severe symptoms warrant an appointment ...

Ocular TB is a rare eye disease due to infection from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the same bacterium that causes tuberculosis, commonly known as TB. TB symptoms usually start in the lungs, but they ...

Allergies, corneal injuries, and tiredness can be what causes bloodshot eyes. Infections like pink eye can also cause this symptom. Glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that cause vision loss, can lead ...

New research that sheds light on how the immune system responds to serious eye infections is underway at Wayne State ...

Two years ago, to fill a staffing shortage, ophthalmologist Dr. Linden Doss started responding to the majority of Santa Barbara’s eye emergencies. Up to 80 percent, he estimates. Doss was familiar ...

Halloween drives an influx of ophthalmic emergencies and infections caused by nonprescription contact lenses, masks and more.