A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed an eye drop that successfully slowed vision loss in mice with an inherited eye disease. In mice both with retinitis ...

Ointments have the advantage of increased dwell time in the eye, but often patients and parents of children prefer drops, and no therapeutic advantage of one over the other has been demonstrated.

The drops still need to be tested in dogs with eye infections. If they work, then they should also help humans with eye problems, researchers said. “The findings of this study offer clear ...