Effective Sjögren’s management demands a strict separation between symptomatic relief for sicca and immunosuppression for ...

Dry eye disease happens when the lacrimal glands do not make enough tears, or the tears do not have the right balance of ...

Beyond sicca symptoms, Sjögren's disease can involve non-glandular manifestations such as dysautonomia and small fiber neuropathy that are often difficult to assess and manage. At this year's American ...

Despite a decade of growing attention to dry eye disease, millions of patients remain undiagnosed — whether symptomatic or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . North Carolina-based TearScience today announced the FDA approval of its LipiFlow thermal pulsation system for ...

Monomorphic adenomas refer to a group of rare tumors of the salivary gland that include basal cell adenomas and canalicular adenomas. Basal cell adenomas are observed predominantly in the parotid ...

Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is the major cause of evaporative dry eye disease (EDED) and dysfunction is widely thought to mechanistically involve ductal hyperkeratinization, plugging and ...

New research shows that patients who have had contact with the hospital due to serious glandular disease have a greater risk of subsequently developing depression. The study from iPSYCH is the largest ...

Treatment involves excision of the mucocele with associated minor salivary glands to decrease the chance for recurrence. Occasionally, mucoceles will rupture spontaneously and heal without surgical ...