Melanie Wightman developed ocular melanoma, a rare eye cancer that develops in pigment-producing cells of the eye ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

The cancer had spread to both of 1-year-old Lily Morss' eyes Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. GoFundMe A toddler was ...

Each year about 300 children in the United States are diagnosed with retinoblastoma, an eye cancer that makes up about 1% of childhood cancers. This cancer typically occurs in young children, often ...

Eye cancer often develops with few symptoms, including vision changes or a dark spot on the iris (colored part) of your eye. Regular eye exams can help you get a diagnosis sooner. Cancers of the eye ...

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers found a way to predict when a rare eye cancer will respond to treatment, The Washington Post reported April 22. The study, published in Nature ...

A 6-month-old girl’s rare retinal cancer was mistakenly diagnosed by doctors as eczema — and her eye was eventually removed. Katherine O’Neill, 42, noticed her daughter, Amelia, had been rubbing her ...

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

Foghorn Therapeutics isn’t having much luck with FHD-286. Only weeks after the FDA released a trial of the drug in two blood cancers from a clinical hold, the biotech has abandoned plans for the ...

A woman was diagnosed with a brain tumor after she couldn’t read a single letter during her eye test. Gemma Hillier, 45, lost her dad, Rod, 73, in July 2018 after he was diagnosed with a glioblastoma ...

Her life changed in a flash. A UK mom of four says she was able to detect her infant son’s rare cancer using the flash on her phone’s camera. Sarah Hedges, 40, was cooking a shepherd’s pie dinner in ...