Once you apply ointment to your eye, it breaks into tiny drops. These hang out between your eyeball and eyelid for a while. That’s what gives the medicine time to work. Eye ointments are a safe ...

Compr Ophthalmol Update. 2005;6(2):85-101. Antimicrobial medications for conjunctivitis are typically given as one drop (or one-half inch of ointment) four times daily for 5-7 days. Ointments have ...

"This is an exciting finding, that a cheap over-the-counter antibiotic ointment can stimulate the ... and dermatology at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn. Neosporin contains neomycin ...

The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a "game-changer" for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...