You may notice eye floaters when you’re looking at a blank wall, surface, or sky. When you blink or move your eye to try and clear them away, the floaters move with your vision or appear to move away ...

There’s a dark spot floating in front of your eye, but when you try to look directly at it, it scoots away. What the heck? These little shadows are known as floaters, and like gray hair and laugh ...

Eye floaters can be a sign of retinal detachment, but there are many other causes. Some surgeries may help remove eye floaters that result from a detached retina. Eye floaters are when you see specks, ...

Eye floaters are common, harmless specks caused by collagen clumps in the eye's vitreous, often appearing with age. While usually benign, a sudden increase, flashes, or a curtain-like shadow signals a ...

Eye floaters—or muscae volitantes, Latin for “hovering flies"—are those tiny, oddly shaped objects that sometimes appear in your vision, most often when you’re looking at the sky on a sunny day. They ...

Q: Over the years, I occasionally experience a streak of light across my vision, which goes away quickly. However, I have ...

As many as 76 percent of us experience eye floaters, according to findings in the journal Survey of Ophthalmology. And while some of us are barely bothered by the dots, squiggles and specks that drift ...

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 lens is the part of your eye that focuses light, helping you to see clearly. Cataracts cause the lens of your eye to become cloudy, making it harder to see. Surgery can be used to remove cataracts ...

For many of us, floaters are a normal part of aging. If you are worried, a visit to your eye doctor can help ease your concerns. It can also provide a baseline assessment to measure against for ...

Eye floaters, while often harmless, can signal serious underlying conditions such as uveitis, diabetic retinopathy, eye infections, or retinal detachment. These issues cause inflammatory cells or ...