A South Korean study suggests that the loss of the corneal reflex — the automatic blink when the eye is touched — may signal a 70% likelihood of death within 24 hours in deeply sedated hospice ...

There are certain moments in medicine that feel almost impossible to prepare for – the point at which a doctor or nurse must ...

Experts have suggested that palliative care patients who fail to corneal reflex tests are likley to die within 24 hours.

A new study published in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care journal suggests that doctors may be able to predict whether ...

Doctors used to call it heartburn, but more than 20 million Americans have a more serious condition called reflux disease. Unfortunately for many of them, getting tested for this disease can be just ...

Like many hospice clinicians, Jung Hun Kang, MD, PhD, had noticed the disappearance of the corneal reflex in his dying patients. But unlike most, he decided to investigate. His new study, published in ...

An abnormal red reflex finding most likely reflects an underlying ocular pathology in infants, but finding a normal red reflex during screening does not altogether exclude ocular disease. The American ...

Scientists may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children's eyes move when they turn their heads. Scientists at UC San Francisco may have discovered a new way to test for ...