Ophthalmologist Ashley Brissette, MD joins WIRED to answer your ocular enquires in a tech support all about eyes. How does LASIK eye surgery work? How does an eye doctor know if a baby needs glasses? What are ‘eye floaters’ and how do they work? What does an eyeball feel like? Dr. Brissette answers these questions and more—it’s Eye Support! ????

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Biggest challenge today is lack of confidence in Ayurvedic practitioners

They say they wrote their exams in May and have been living with uncertainty for the last two months

September 29 is observed as World Heart Day

Psychedelic substances have reinvigorated clinical and research interests, and have added to psychiatry’s ever-expanding therapeutic armamentarium.

Many physicians have reported being sexually harassed and personally attacked on social media platforms on the basis of their religion, race or medical recommendations, a new joint study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago revealed.

While the data were collected before the COVID-19 pandemic, the findings highlight the intensity of online harassment, which the authors stated has intensified since the crisis.

According to a news release, the study found one in four physicians reported being personally attacked on social media, including being barraged by negative reviews, receiving coordinated harassment and threats at work and having personal information shared publicly.

Watson Supercomputer gets hidden insights from 15 million pages of medical content, including more than 200 medical textbooks. The computer combines Artificial Intelligence and analytical software to perform as a question answering machine.

Doctors in Delhi are advising residents to wear N95 masks, get vaccinated and opt for work-from-home if possible, if they can’t leave the city, as the national capital battles deteriorating air quality

7th Pay Commission’s recommendations have been flayed by FORDA

Despite economic security, stability, doctors don't prefer corporate hospitals

Rising diphtheria cases highlight the need for adult immunisation.

More than half of them don’t have any medical qualification, and in rural areas, just 18.8 per cent of allopathic doctors are qualified.

Here’s a primer to get acquainted with the Marvel’s superhero universe’s most unique character

The West Bengal government must enable the changes doctors want to see

How clear communication and accountability in healthcare can significantly improve patient outcomes

Jivi.ai taps GenAI to optimise available medical resources and widen healthcare access

Aga Khan Foundation has given women in this Bihar district a new source of income with state-of-the-art agricultural technology

Hair stylist Jawed Habib talks about his new book ‘Beautiful Hair, Beautiful You’ and says, despite the information overload pertaining to hair care, he observes a general lack of awareness

‘Doctor Strange’ is a subverted superhero film with plenty to look and laugh at.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee vowed to seek death penalty for the perpetrator in the Kolkata doctor rape and murder case

Senior doctors and faculty members joined the protests at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a female post-graduate trainee doctor was sexually assaulted and murdered on August 9

Signs of sexual assault evident in inquest and post-mortem report

A running joke is that a student with sloppy handwriting will probably become a doctor

Sarma’s research results were published in high impact journals and also resulted in a patent

They want the the Joint Director of Health Services, who placed the doctor under suspension following protest by the family members and relatives alleging medical negligence, to withdraw the order

Doctor G is outwardly all for women, but evidently has no interest in them, observes Sreehari Nair.

While concerns have been raised repeatedly about the health of the astronauts stuck in space, recent photos have stirred the discussion. Williams appears gaunt, which experts say might indicate nutritional deficiencies 

“A medical staff is in the CCU and his parameters have deteriorated. We have formed a medical board to treat him,” a senior doctor of the NRS Medical College and Hospital told

With junior doctors insisting to continue with their hunger strike till all their demands are met the stalemate is likely to continue. So far five doctors who began hunger strike on October 5 for a ten-point demand have been hospitalised after their health condition deteriorated

Ongoing unrest in Kolkata as doctors’ hunger strike continues, with two more falling ill, sparking further protests

Bench gives National Task Force constituted by Centre on the orders of Supreme Court three weeks to come out with “tentative recommendations”

The agitation by doctors and a section of citizens over the rape and murder of a doctor was not against the Durga Puja but remains primarily directed at the State government

So far, six fasting junior doctors had to be hospitalised following severe deterioration of their health parameters, says Dr. Suvendu Mallick amid fast-unto-death agitation by junior doctors